Pellevoisin The Shrine of Our Lady of Pellevoisin

In 1876 Estelle Faguette, a servant who was dying, said that the Virgin Mary appeared to her fifteen times, between February 14 and December 8, in her room at Pellevoisin. She was healed at the fifth apparition, on February 19, and lived until 1929.

At the ninth apparition she was shown a scapular bearing the Sacred Heart, which Rome later approved. The archbishop of Bourges recognized her cure as a miracle in 1983, and in August 2024, with the approval of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the archbishop of Bourges granted the devotion its nihil obstat. The room of the apparitions is now a chapel, and the Community of Saint John serves the shrine.

Further reading: Nevers: Saint Bernadette at the Convent of Saint-Gildard; Marian Apparitions of France: A Pilgrim’s Guide.

• The room of the apparitionsNow a chapel, where Estelle saw the Virgin.

• Via ImmaculataeThe Way of the Immaculate, ten daysDay II, L’Île-Bouchard and Pellevoisin

About an hour and a quarter by road from Tours.

• FontgombaultThe Abbey of Notre-Dame of Fontgombault, about 30 miles as the crow flies
• ToursThe Basilica of Saint Martin, about 45 miles as the crow flies
• L’Île-BouchardThe Church of Saint-Gilles, about 48 miles as the crow flies
• ChinonThe Royal Fortress of Chinon, about 57 miles as the crow flies