Earlier this month we shared a true story about a Visitation Nun cured through the intercession of Our Lady of La Salette.

A documented cure for a Visitandine is also attributed to the intercession of Our Lady of Laus, also an apparition site in the French Alps.

Sister, later Mother, LOUISE-ANGÉLIQUE OF BELMONT, passed away in our first Monastery in Grenoble on March 18, 1727, aged 74, and 58 under vows.

But earlier in her life a terrible malady was healed through Blessed Mother’s intercession.

Born of a family whose ancient nobility joined the practice of the most eminent virtues, she seemed to inherit the sanctity of her parents.

By a special grace of divine goodness, the world never pleased her; her only desire was invariably to sacrifice everything to the One of whom she held everything. The retreat was her element, and, like the faithful dove, she was anxiously awaiting the moment of entering the Ark which had sheltered her childhood. After spending eight or nine months in her family, she secretly left her mother, to spare her the bitterness of a painful separation.
A few days after her entry, she began the career of religious life with such perfect determination, that she could then be regarded as a model of perfection; her application to the practice of the Rule and to all holy duties was admirable. Trained as a child in the spirit of prayer, in inner recollection, in self-abnegation, she embraced, almost without difficulty, the greatest sacrifices. Her docility and accuracy were so great. However, her Director noticed that she had a little natural inclination to a too sought-after cleanliness, and never did the docile contender show the slightest repugnance to obey.

For about three years, our Sister Louise Angelique endured a terrible sickness in her arm, abandoned to God; but she thought and was destined only to pray and to suffer. Her mother, deeply afflicted, often knocked at the door of the monastery early in the morning to ask for news; never, however, did she enter the enclosure; she did not even ask for permission. It is needless to say that her tenderness did everything to obtain the desired healing. She herself wanted to pay the doctors and for the remedies. The most skilful surgeons were consulted, but they vainly exhausted all the secrets of their art; the only result of their attempts was to sour the evil. Finally, the time of the mercies of the Lord arrived; Satisfied with the patience of our dear Sister, He received the supplications which were addressed to her for her. The Community made a vow to Notre-Dame-du-Laus, a famous shrine of the Diocese of Embrun, where the Lord enjoys performing many miracles through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin. The day after the novena our Sister Louise Angelique experienced only an increase in her usual sufferings; but, generous as usual, she sang the litanies of the Blessed Virgin. After Compline, her devotion was well rewarded: when, on leaving the choir, they wished to dress her, the arm was perfectly cured; there remained neither wound nor pain, and never since then had she felt the slightest attack of this malady; the healing was complete and quite miraculous.

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Our Lady of Laus

statues depicting the apparition of Notre-Dame du Laus to Benoite Rencurel; date and artist unknown; photographed on 24 August 2009 by moi-même; swiped from Wikimedia Commons

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  • Our Lady Refuge of Sinners

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A series of apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the the shepherdess visionary Benoîte Rencurel that began in 1664. Mary‘s message was a call to repentence, and she asked for the construction of a church and house for priests as a foundation for a site of pilgrims to seek greater conversion especially through the sacrament of Reconciliation. The Sanctuaire that developed now draws 120,000 pilgrims a year. Many healings, spiritual and physical, have been reported.

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