The Chamber of Apparitions
It was in this room, which was Estelle’s bedroom at the time, that the Virgin Mary appeared to her 15 times, and where she was healed on 18 February 1876, when she was at death’s door.(link to the account of the apparitions)
This room was later converted into an oratory to accommodate pilgrims.
During the first apparition, the Virgin Mary said to Estelle: “If my Son gives you back your life, I want you to declare my glory”. As Estelle wondered how she would be able to fulfil this mission, given her poverty, the Virgin Mary presented her with a white marble plaque, which Estelle recognised as an ex-voto.
During the fifth apparition, on the night of her cure (18 February 1876), the Virgin presented her with the ex-voto again, with golden rosebuds in the four corners, and at the top, a flaming golden heart, with a crown of roses, pierced by a sword, and on which was written: “I invoked Mary at the height of my misery. She obtained for me from her Son my complete recovery”.
Shortly after her recovery, Estelle had this ex-voto placed in the parish church. Two other ex-votos were to follow.
Two days after her recovery, Estelle wrote a prayer of thanksgiving to the Virgin Mary (below). Like Estelle, we can give thanks for the Lord’s goodness in our lives by making this beautiful prayer our own.
Like Estelle, you too can place your prayer intentions in the basket available in Estelle’s room, to be entrusted to the intercession of the Virgin Mary and carried in the prayers of the contemplative sisters of Saint-Jean and the pilgrims.
You can also send your prayer intentions to intercession@pellevoisin.net or using the form.
Estelle’s prayer of thanksgiving after her healing :
“O my good Mother, here I am in your hands. Look with pity on your poor servant; do not allow my infidelities to render useless the designs of your providence on my miserable person.
“May this Jesus, whom you bore in your heart and who deigned to descend even today into mine, be my one and only support, may he uproot all my evil inclinations; in a word, may he remove everything that would not be his glory and yours.
“Holy Virgin, who today shows your power so well by granting me the healing of my body, heal me above all from the sin which has so often overwhelmed my soul.
“O you, my powerful protector, you who, after God, are my consolation, and who have softened my sorrows, you who are the light of my soul by making me see my iniquities, you who are my strength, my treasure, my joy, and the hope of my life and my salvation, you have said to me: “You are my daughter. “Therefore, you cannot reject my prayers. Please answer them and have compassion on me as befits the Mother of a God who has had so much goodness and love for men.
“He is their Father, he has made you their Mother: since you have been pleased to include me among your privileged ones, obtain for me from God all the graces necessary for the salvation of my soul.
“I promise you, my good Mother, that I will do everything I can to make myself worthy of your favours. Estelle ”
