The Virgin Mary visits Laus, France for 54 years!

Join John Carpenter, Don Hartley and the Deeper Truth research team as they investigate the longest running Marian apparition in history.

In morning of May 1664, after hearing a sermon from the village’s parish priest, Benoite felt a strong desire to meet the Mother of God. Later while sitting in the ruins of an old building, once a chapel, to eat her lunch, she encounters an elderly man, St. Maurice, who tells her to take her flock of sheep to the valley above Saint-Étienne and pointed out a spring where she could get a drink of water, and told her to go to a certain valley in the mountains with her her sheep and she will see the Mother of God.

The next day, Benoite did what St. Maurice instructed and there, for the first of many times, she saw a Lady who was to guide her for many years. She was a beautiful Lady, with a lovely Baby. Benoite, who knew that there was an old limekiln nearby, asked her if she had come to buy a lime. The Lady did not speak and smiled. The smile was so heavenly that Benoite could not get it out of her mind. She could hardly wait to get back the next day. For nearly two months she met the Lady on a daily basis at the same site; the Lady did not speak, but her presence was so delightful that it made Benoite happy just to look at her.

Eventually, as one might expect, the neighbors became curious. They knew that this particular valley offered poor grazing for sheep, and they told Benoite’s employer that she was neglecting her charge for some fanciful visitor. He forbade her to go to the valley again. However, the sheep went by themselves. She tearfully reported this to him and he went with the sheep to prove that she was wrong. After a long, hard day trying to get his sheep out of the rocky valley, which they persisted in entering no matter what he would do, he gave up. The sheep, observed, were as fat as anyone’s sheep.