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Pellevoisin is a small town in Berry, in the centre of France, to the west of Châteauroux, in the Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges.〔Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Miséricorde – Pellevoisin. Brochure published by the shrine authorities at Pellevoisin, 2005. Printed by Imprimerie BEAU’LIEU Lyon.〕 In the year 1876, a domestic servant, Estelle Faguette, claimed to receive a series of 15 apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the course of which she recovered from a serious illness. In 1983, Archbishop Vignancour of Bourges formally declared that this cure was inexplicable in the light of present-day medical science, and that the Estelle’s cure could rightly be regarded as a miracle by Catholics. As early as December 8 in the year of the apparitions, the room that had been Estelle’s bedroom was transformed into an oratory, and Pellevoisin rapidly became a place of pilgrimage - the shrine of Our Lady of Pellevoisin. The Catholic Church has never made a formal pronouncement on the status of the alleged apparitions but has continued to encourage these pilgrimages. A distinctive feature of the reported events of Pellevoisin is the Virgin Mary’s request for use of a Scapular of the Sacred Heart. ==Estelle Faguette== 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Our Lady of Pellevoisin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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