Christian feast day: Our Lady of the Poor

Our Lady of Banneux

1933 apparition of Mary in Belgium

Our Lady of Banneux, or Our Lady of the Poor, is the sobriquet given to the eight apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Mariette Beco, an adolescent girl living in Banneux, Liège Province, Belgium, between 15 January and 2 March 1933. Beco told her family and parish priest of seeing…