page_title: Our Lady of Pellevoisin
section_title: Estelle Faguette
hierarchical_section_title: Our Lady of Pellevoisin / Estelle Faguette
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the 19th Century French Catholic mystic, Estelle Faguette
context_page_description: Our Lady of Pellevoisin is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary which refers to a series of Marian apparitions in Pellevoisin, in the province of Berry, in the department of Indre, France. Pellevoisin is west of Châteauroux in the Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges.
  In 1876, a domestic servant, Estelle Faguette, claimed to receive a series of fifteen apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and recovered from a serious illness, tuberculosis. A distinctive feature of Estelle's apparitions was her claim that the Virgin wished her devotees to wear a Scapular of the Sacred Heart.
  Following authorization by the Archbishop of Bourges in 1877, Estelle's bedroom was transformed into an oratory. Pellevoisin rapidly became a place of pilgrimage, the shrine of Our Lady of Pellevoisin. Pope Leo XIII encouraged the pilgrimages by approving indulgences to pilgrims, and also approved related devotions to Our Lady.
  In 1983, Archbishop Paul Vignancour of Bourges formally declared Estelle's cure to be inexplicable in the light of medical science and that her recovery could rightly be regarded as a miracle by Catholics.
context_section_description: Estelle Faguette was born 12 September 1843 at Saint-Memmie near Châlons-sur-Marne and joined the Children of Mary at the age of 14. She entered an order of Augustinian nursing sisters, but left while still a novice. She tripped and fell on a staircase; although the sprain seemed trivial at first, two weeks later, her leg was immobilised and doctors considered amputation. On 15 September 1863, Estelle reluctantly accepted that she could not pursue the life of a nursing sister and returned to her parents’ home.
caption: Estelle Faguette
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