Paranormal record / 1947
December 8, 1947. L'Île-Bouchard, a small town in Touraine. Four girls stopped at the church of Saint-Gilles on their lunch break to pray for France. Jacqueline Aubry, 12, saw a great light, bright but not dazzling. In it stood a beautiful Lady in white. An angel knelt at her right. Over seven days the Lady returned ten times. The crowds grew from a handful of children to more than 2,000 people. Only the four girls saw her. Then came the last day. Under a low grey sky, a ray of sunlight streamed through a window and fell on the spot of the apparition and on the four children. People said it was as warm as in summer.
December 1947. France was shaken by insurrectionary strikes. On 2 and 3 December the Paris-Tourcoing mail train was derailed, leaving 16 dead. In L'Île-Bouchard, in Indre-et-Loire, the nuns asked their pupils to pray to the Virgin for France on 8 December, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.