| Our Lady of Banneux | |
|---|---|
 The miraculous spring of Our Lady of Banneux, in Belgium | |
| Location | Banneux, Belgium |
| Date | 15 January – 2 March 1933 |
| Witness | Mariette Beco |
| Type | Marian apparition |
| Approval | 22 August 1949[1] Bishop Louis-Joseph Kerkhofs Diocese of Liège |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Shrine | Shrine of Our Lady of Banneux, Belgium |
Our Lady of Banneux (French: Notre-Dame de Banneux), or Our Lady of the Poor, is the sobriquet given to the eight apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Mariette Beco, an adolescent girl living in Banneux, Liège Province, Belgium, between 15 January and 2 March 1933. Beco told her family and parish priest of seeing a Lady in white who declared herself to be the "Virgin of the Poor", saying "I come to relieve suffering" and "Believe in me and I will believe in you".
- ^ Pope John Paul II (1999-07-31). "On the 50th Anniversary of the Recognition of the Apparitions of Our Lady at Banneux". Letter to Bishop Albert Houssiau.
Fifty years ago, on 22 August 1949, Bishop Louis-Joseph Kerkhofs, your predecessor in the see of Liège, definitively recognized the reality of the apparitions of Our Lady of the Poor in Banneux.