page_title: Our Lady of Pellevoisin
section_title: Current shrine
hierarchical_section_title: Our Lady of Pellevoisin / Current shrine
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the house in Pellevoisin, France, where domestic servant, Estelle Faguette, claimed to have received visions of the Virgin Mary. It is now a monastery of the Community of St. John.
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: The Shrine of Our Lady of Pellevoisin was under the care of the Dominicans for 105 years from 1895, but since 1998, it has been served by friars and sisters of the Community of St Jean. A community of contemplative sisters form the Monastery of the Merciful Mother, and the friars form the Priory of St Mary Magdalen. The main spiritual activities are daily Mass at 11:30, a weekend celebrating God's mercy around the Second Sunday of Easter each year (Divine Mercy Sunday in the Roman Catholic Church) and the annual pilgrimage on the last weekend in August. Pilgrimages by groups and individuals are welcome throughout the year.
caption: The house in Pellevoisin, France, where domestic servant, Estelle Faguette, claimed to have received visions of the Virgin Mary. It is now a monastery of the Community of St. John.
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