Marian Apparitions

Mary appeared to St. Bernadette in a grotto, calling for prayer and penance; a spring there still draws pilgrims.

Mary appeared to St. Juan Diego on Tepeyac hill and left her image on his tilma, still venerated today.

Mary appeared to three shepherd children, asking for the Rosary and the conversion of hearts.

A silent apparition of Mary, St. Joseph, and St. John appeared at the parish church gable, with an altar and the Lamb.

The Miraculous Medal owes its origin to the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Chapel of the Rue du Bac, Paris, in the year 1830, where she appeared as the Immaculata to St. Catherine Laboure, a novice with the Daughters of Charity. Located at 140 Rue du Bac, in the heart of Paris, this humble chapel attached to the motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity is one of the most visited Marian shrines in the entire world. It is not a grand cathedral. It is not an architectural landmark on the scale of Notre Dame. It is something rarer: a small, quiet chapel in a narrow street where heaven broke through to earth in the darkness of a November night, and where the Mother of God gave a peasant girl a mission that would reach every corner of the globe.

A weeping Mary appeared to two young shepherds, calling for penance and return to God.

During the Franco-Prussian War, Mary appeared in the sky to village children with a message of hope and prayer.

Mary, the 'Virgin with the Golden Heart,' appeared repeatedly to five children.

Mary, the 'Virgin of the Poor,' appeared to Mariette Beco, pointing to a spring for the sick.

Mary appeared to Adele Brise, asking her to teach the children of the area their faith.

On June 24, 1981, six children in the town of Medjugorje, Yugoslavia (today, Bosnia-Herzegovina), began to experience phenomena which they alleged to be apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The apparitions carried a message of peace for the world, as well as a call to conversion, prayer, and fasting, and entrusted to the children secret messages about events to be fulfilled in the future.

A wooden statue of Mary was reported to weep and to bleed; messages called for prayer and penance.

Mary appeared to schoolgirls as 'Mother of the Word,' with calls to prayer and warnings later linked to the genocide.

Reported apparitions of Mary as 'Reconciler of Peoples' at Finca Betania, witnessed by many pilgrims.

Mary appeared to Gladys Quiroga de Motta with messages of the Rosary, peace, and conversion.

Mary appeared to Bernardo Martinez, calling Nicaraguans to the Rosary, peace, and conversion during civil war.

Mary appeared under the title of Good Success to the Conceptionist nun St. Mariana de Jesus Torres.

One of the earliest Church-recognized apparitions in Europe, where Mary wept over the loss of Catholic worship.

Mary appeared to two girls, speaking in Polish and calling for the Rosary; the only Church-approved apparition in Poland.

A silent mass apparition of Mary reported over a Coptic church, witnessed by large crowds of many faiths.