On
September 8, 1914, feast of Our Lady’s Nativity, Marcelle Lanchon, 23,
received an apparition of Our Lady at the Chapel of the Armies in
Versailles (France) on the same day that the Virgin Mary stopped the
Germans on the Marne, near Paris.
The visionary, who
witnessed more apparitions, later took the name of Marie France as a
consecrated virgin in the Pious Union of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart
that she had founded. She handed down a prayer to recite for France:
"My Son, forgive her, she still loves you since she never stopped loving
me." As well as this promise from the Virgin:
"My Son asks that
you would make images and statues representing me thus (i.e. as Queen of
France) and that the people invoke me under the title of Our Lady of
France. If they answer this new desire of His Divine Heart, France will
again become particularly mine, I will take it forever under my maternal
protection and my Son will delight in spreading abundant blessings over
the land."
Bishop
Roland Gosselin, the local bishop, gave permission to print the image of
"Mary Queen of France" with the prayer revealed during the apparitions.
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