In May 1664, Benoîte Rencurel, a 17-year-old shepherdess in southeastern France, saw an apparition of St Maurice, a third-century martyr g...

  On 11 February 1858, 'a petite damsel' spoke to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous in the grotto of Massabielle about a mile from th...

  On 20 January 1842 while visiting Rome, Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, an anti-Catholic Jew, had a vision of the Virgin Mary. He converted to ...

    It marks the date in 1531 when the  Virgin  Mary purportedly appeared to an indigenous Mexican, in the last of several apparitions. To t...

During Advent, as we prepare for the birth of Christ at Christmas, we also celebrate one of the great feasts of the Catholic Church.  The So...

  In 1578, woodcutter Thomas Michalek saw a bright light in the forest. It was the Virgin Mary, who asked him to alert the authorities to bu...

  On 27 June 1877, a 'Bright Lady' showed herself to 13-year-old Justyna Szafrynska and a day later also to her friend Barbara Samul...

  At four in the morning on 13 January 1866, the Virgin Mary appeared at the sickbed of Magdalena Kade. Mary, dressed in white and wearing a...

  A few days after the Virgin's last apparition in Beauraing, she appeared in the nearby town of Banneux. Between 15 January and 2 March...

 The apparitions communicated various messages to the schoolchildren, including an apocalyptic vision of Rwanda descending into violence and...

  Our Lady of Fatima Our Lady of  Fatima  is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by...