Our Lady of Banneux, Belgium
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Our Lady of
Banneux, 1933:
Believe in Me
- I will Believe in You!
Twelve days after Our Lady of Beauraing
the Lady with the
Golden Heart said "Goodbye" to five children in Beauraing, Belgium,
she made her presence felt again in Banneux, Belgium, some fifty
miles to the northeast, to Mariette Beco, known as Our Lady of Banneux.
At 11 years old, the eldest
of seven children, she was not intelligent, yet she was not stupid.
She
did very badly in Catechism Class. She had stopped going for First Holy
Communion instructions.
She was a product of her environment,
which was, in a word, hopeless. Her father was an unemployed wiremaker.
He had no use for God or the Church. He was born a Catholic, but that
was a long time ago. He hadn't been near a church for years.
Julian
Beco couldn't care less that his eldest daughter had given up her
religious training. His attitude infected the household. There was
nothing in the house of a religious nature. His wife, Louise, followed
his lead. God had no place in their home.
The winter of 1933 had turned extremely
bitter. The eerie sounds of the wind wailing through the trees, bending
the branches in a contest of strength, created a deafening din inside
the house. Drafts blew through the open cracks under the doors and in
the window frames. The flames in the fireplace flickered wildly, as
they battled the cold winds blowing down the chimney. It was dark,
around 7 in the evening, on this freezing night. Mariette sat by the
front window of her house, looking into the black of night for some sign
of her brother Julien, who was late returning home. As she opened the
curtain to look out, she saw a Lady standing in their front yard,
surrounded by a bright light. The Lady was short, about five feet tall,
and exceptionally beautiful. Our Lady of Banneux was not dressed like any of the ladies
from the village. She wore a long white gown with a blue sash. One of
her feet could be seen. She was barefoot, with just a gold rose in
between her toes. In this kind of weather, she should be freezing. Mariette noticed that she stood just above the ground, sort of on a
cloud. She didn't seem to be cold at all.
Now Mariette had a very logical mind,
even at age 11. The scene she saw before her eyes didn't make sense.
It was probably the reflection of the oil lamp. She took the oil lamp
from the table, and put it in another room. Then she went back to the
window and looked out. The Lady was still there. She resorted to the
next natural course of action - she called her mother. Mariette
explained what she was looking at. Louise Beco responded in a natural
way also. "Rubbish", she said.
Mariette was persistent . She described
Our Lady of Banneux. Her mother replied jokingly, "Perhaps it's the Blessed
Virgin."
The child insisted her mother come over
to the window and see for herself. Feeling very foolish, Louise went
over to the window and looked out. She saw a white shape, but she
couldn't make out any figures.
"It's a witch." she said, and let the
curtain fall, blocking the image from Mariette's eyes. The child opened
the curtain again.
"She's beautiful, Mama. She's smiling
at me." The mother ignored her eldest daughter.
The child noticed that the Our Lady of
Banneux had a
Rosary, hanging from the blue sash. The cross was the same color of
gold as the rose between her toes. Mariette went to a drawer, and
rummaged through, looking for a Rosary she had found outside on the
road. When she found it, she began to pray. The Lady's lips moved, but
she didn't say anything that Mariette could hear. After a few decades,
the Lady raised her hand, and motioned with her finger for Mariette to
come outside. The young girl asked permission to leave the house.
"Lock the door." Her mother replied.
By the time Mariette returned to the
window, the Lady had disappeared. She kept going back to the window to
see if the beautiful Lady had returned, but she had not. Pretty soon,
her brother Julien came home. She told him what had happened while she
was waiting for him at the window. His reaction was similar to that of
his mother's, only a little more vocal.
His comments ranged from "You're a fool" to "You're crazy".
Monday, January 16, Mariette told a girl
friend at school what had happened. The girl told her she had to tell
the priest. Mariette was afraid, but with the encouragement of her
friend, the two of them went to the priest's office. Mariette backed
out at the last minute, and ran off. The friend told the priest, Fr.
Louis Jamin, what Mariette had said. The priest was sure Mariette
was influenced by the recent reported apparitions in Beauraing, and paid
no attention to it. He cautioned the friend, however, not to tell
anyone about Mariette's reported apparition.
For the next two days, Monday and
Tuesday, the Our Lady of Banneux did not return. However, that one visit had a deep
effect on Mariette's spirituality. She returned to her Catechism class
on Wednesday, embracing the material with a renewed enthusiasm. She
knew her lesson perfectly. This amazed Fr. Jamin, because Mariette had
always been the worst student in the class. After class, Father asked
her why she had run away on Monday without telling him what she had
seen. By this time, the child had reflected on what had happened. She
was not frightened anymore. She spoke very calmly, telling the priest
exactly what she had seen. He, for his part, did not treat her as a
child, or belittle what she claimed. He only told her to pray to Our
Lady for guidance.
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