The Virgin Stays in Belgium and Visits Banneux in 1933

Join John Carpenter, Don Hartley, and the Deeper Truth research team as they review more apparitions coming from another part of Belgium in 1933.

Mary told Mariette that the spring was set apart for her (Mary), for all the nations, and for the sick. Again, similar to Beauraing, Mary makes a bold claim in Banneux where she said, “I come to relieve the sick” and “I come to relieve suffering.” Further, Mary told Mariette, “Have faith in me…

Mariette Beco was 12 and a half years old when she reported Marian apparitions in 1933 in Banneux, 

It is understandable that Mary would appear in Belgium in the early 1930's because she was the main talk in French and Belgian towns, each with mother figures that are symbols of Pietà. There was lots of economic issues for children, and an anti-Catholic state was across the land known as the Nazi state.

Ten miles from Liege, in the plateau hamlet of Banneux. The family was not a pious one. The 15th of January was a Sunday and 11-year-old Mariette, the eldest of the siblings, missed Mass (it seems this was an ordinary occurrence in this family). The Beco family was poor (by Belgian standards) and their 4-room house would later be the cramped quarters for a family of eleven. Mariette Beco was the oldest, born on March 25, 1921 (the feast of the Annuncation coincided that year with Good Friday). At 11 years old, the eldest of seven children, she was not intelligent, yet she was not stupid.  She did very badly in Catechism Class. 

The winter of 1933 had turned extremely bitter.  The eerie sounds of the wind wailing through the trees, bending the branches in a contest of strength, created a deafening din inside the  house.  Drafts blew through the open cracks under the doors and in the window frames.