1664: Virgin Mary Sighting near Grenoble, France

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Date: May 1664

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Day/Night: daytime

Location: Grenoble, France

Urban or Rural: –

Entity Type: Virgin Mary

Entity Description: St. Maurice – elderly man in a red robe

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) Close observation with animate beings associated with the object.

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No. of Object(s): 2

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Special Features/Characteristics: “delicious perfumes” or odors.

Source: Marian Apparitions; Appearances of The Blessed Virgin Mary Our Lady of La Laus

Summary/Description: 17-year old shepherdess Benoit Rencurel was out working on the hillside near a ruined chapel and had just finished her rosary when an elderly man in a red robe appeared to her, introducing himself as St. Maurice. He found for her a spring of water that she had not seen before, and then told her to go with her sheep to a small valley near St. Etienne “where a great grace would be granted her.”

Being a devout girl, she went to the valley the next day. At a spot known as Les Fours she saw the first of a series of visions of a lady and child that were to occur regularly over a period of two months. When asked who she was the figure replied: “I am Mary, the Mother of Jesus. It is the will of my son that I should be honored in this parish though not in this spot. You will therefore ask the priest to come here with his people in procession.” A number of healings and miraculous cures were claimed and accepted by ecclesiastical authorities. It is interesting to note that at times the apparition was accompanied by “delicious perfumes” or odors.