Our Lady of Laus is a set of Marian apparitions that occured between 1664 and 1718 in the small village of Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, in the French alps. In May of 1664, a young 17-year-old shepherdess named Benoîte Rencurel saw an apparition of St. Maurice, a local patron saint, who warned her of future troubles and urged…

Our Lady of Good Help, also known as Our Lady of Champion, is the only Marian apparition in the United States approved by the Church. In 1859, a Belgian immigrant named Adele Brise was walking through the woods when she encountered a beautiful woman standing between two trees dressed in dazzling white with a golden…

Our Lady of Kibeho appeared in the small village of Kibeho, located in southwestern Rwanda. The apparitions began in the early 1980s during a time of rising tensions that tragically culminated in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The main visionaries were three young women named Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, and Marie Claire Mukangango. On Novemeber…

On May 13, 1917, three shepherd children named Lúcia Santos, Jacinta Marto, and Francisco Marto were tending sheep in Fatima, Portugal, in a place called Cova da Iria when they saw a woman “brighter than the sun”, who identified herself as being from heaven. She asked them to return to this same location on the…

Lourdes is a town in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains in southern France. In 1858, Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old girl, experienced a series of apparitions in a grotto called Massabielle. On February 11, 1858, while gathering firewood with her sister and a friend, Bernadette saw a light emitting from the grotto, and then a…

Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most beloved Marian Apparitions in the Catholic Church and holds a special place in the hearts of millions, especially in Mexico and the Americas. On December 9, 1531, just a decade after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, an indigenous man named Juan Diego was on his way…