Our Lady of Laus visions

Record summary

Benoîte Rencurel, a French shepherdess and lay visionary, was reported to have experienced repeated apparitions of the Virgin Mary beginning in 1664 at Laus. The site developed into a pilgrimage center, with later ecclesiastical investigations and recognition. This lead offers comparison with prolonged visionary careers, healing claims, pilgrimage economies and the recording of testimony by clerics. Uncertainty includes the evidentiary independence of surviving reports, the chronology of written documentation and the distinction between officially approved devotion and proof of supernatural events.