Case file · Apparition / miracle
Our Lady of Banneux
Between January and March 1933, 11-year-old Mariette Beco of Banneux, Belgium, reported eight visions of a Lady in white who called herself the 'Virgin of the Poor'.
1933 CE · 50.54, 5.75 · status: account
The account
Beco was the eldest of seven children in a poor family near a pine forest. The Bishop of Liège approved the devotion in 1942 and the apparitions themselves in 1949.
The sceptical view
The account depends on one child's testimony, recorded in a year when Belgium was also caught up in the Beauraing visions.