The Apparition of Our Lady of Laus

Record summary

Benoîte Rencurel, a shepherdess in the Dauphiné, was said to experience repeated appearances of the Virgin Mary beginning in 1664 at Laus. The reports included devotional instructions, healing associations, and the development of a pilgrimage sanctuary. The case is useful for comparing early modern visionary women, clerical investigation, local pilgrimage economics, and Catholic responses after the Reformation. Documentation consists of ecclesiastical inquiries, devotional biographies, and later institutional records; the apparition itself remains a religious claim rather than an independently verified event.