The Virgin Mary visits Vinay, France 1649

Join John Carpenter, Don Hartley, and the Deeper Truth research team as they review the incidents in Vinay, France in 1649. 

Pierre Port-Comber, a farmer, abandoned the Catholic Faith for this new heretical group. Mr. Combet grew to reject anything Catholic would purposely work on Sundays and Feast Days as an outward protest.

Pierre was married to a devout Catholic, Jeanne, who bore six children trying to raise them Catholic but Pierre did not respect his vows he made before God and his wife. He brought heresy within his household against his wife's objection. Like St. Monica, she began to intercede for her husband at Mass and the Rosary.

Despite Jeanne's devotion, Pierre would work on Sundays and Holy Days to inflame the Catholic majority. On March 25, 1649, the Feast of the Annunciation Pierre staged himself to work near a road he knew neighbors would travel to make a spectacle. He began to attempt to cut into a willow tree with his knife when he found blood spilling out splashing on him. Thinking he cut himself he wiped off the blood and proceeded to stab the tree and again the tree bleed bright red blood.

Jeanne came by the scene noticing Pierre was covered in blood. Thinking he was hurt she quickly ran to him looking for evidence of a wound. Pierre attempted to explain the strange occurrence so his wife took the knife and cut into the tree with zero blood, not even tree sap noticed. Pierre watching his wife retook the knife and again stabbed into the willow tree and again the bleeding occurs.