Marie Lataste

Marie Lataste (21 February 1822 at Mimbaste near Dax, Landes, France – 10 May 1847 at Rennes) was a French Roman Catholic nun and visionary. A peasant girl with minimal formal education, she wrote two lengthy volumes describing teachings which she said Jesus had revealed to her in a vision, and which were published after heavy editing by her spiritual advisor. These books were briefly popular due to their apparent prediction of the 1870 fall of the Papal States, and influenced the writings of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.