SCHOOLGIRL’S VISIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 384, 19 June 1928, Page 13

SCHOOLGIRL’S VISIONS

“BEAUTIFUL LADY ON A CLOUD” The Vosges region round the village of Ferdrupt is in a state of excitement on account of the visions said to have been seen by a school girl of 13, Marcelle Georges, who lives at a little farm there with her grandparents. In one day no fewer than 600 people came by train, and between 50 and 60 motor-cars arrived laden with curious visitors. “It was on March 2 that I lirst saw the vision,” says Marcelle. “I was coming down the hillside about 4 o’clock when I heard a curious noise like wind blowing. I was afraid and said a prayer. “When I was doing so I saw a beautiful lady appear standing on one of the big stones. “ ‘Beautiful lady,’ I said, ‘if you come from God, tell me your name; but if you come from Satan, go away.’ “Then she said to me; ‘My name? I will tell you that later. Come again in three days.’ ” Three days later Marcelle (she says) saw hte vision again at the same spot. “The beautiful lady,” she declared, was dressed in a long while robe and she appeared to be standing on a cloud. “She was very sad, because people have been talking nonsense about her and young women have come along to the spot smoking cigarettes.” The local cure expresses no opinion, but the girl’s grandmother declares that Marcelle does not get wet when she kneels on the hillside in the rain. She has knelt in the mud, and yet her clothes are quite clean. Every day at 4 o’clock Marcelle and her grandparents go to the hillside. A place has been roped off for her. and there she kneels. "I alone see the vision,” she says, "because I alone have sufficient faith.”