Case file · Apparition / miracle
The Holy Candle of Arras
Tradition says that in 1105, during an epidemic of 'burning sickness', the Virgin gave two minstrels a candle at Arras whose drippings mixed with water cured the sick.
1105 CE · 50.29, 2.78 · status: legend
The account
A confraternity of jongleurs kept the candle; the event is linked to the ergotism epidemics of the period.