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On January 3, 1915, a German priest wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of the Marne, died in a French ambulance staffed by nuns. He said to them:
"As a soldier, I should keep silent, but as a priest, I feel I must say what I have seen.
During the battle of the Marne, we were surprised to be driven back, for we were legion compared to the French, and we had every intention of reaching Paris. But we saw the Blessed Virgin, dressed in white with a blue sash, leaning towards Paris... her back was to us, and with her right hand, she seemed to be pushing us away... I saw it, and so did many of our people.”
Around the same time that this German priest testified to this apparition, two German officers, wounded prisoners like himself, rode in a French Red Cross ambulance. A German-speaking nurse accompanied them. When they entered a room with a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, they looked at each other and exclaimed: "Oh, that’s the Virgin of the Marne!"