Marcelle
Lanchon (Sr. Marie France) (1891-1933) / OUR LADY QUEEN OF FRANCE
Status: NO
OFFICIAL DECISION OF APPROVAL from the Church on the apparition itself, however,
the local Bishop later granted permission for the image and revealed prayer to be
printed and distributed. Therefore it is not condemned either and the story of this apparition may be spread by the faithful.
On September
8, 1914 in the Notre-Dame des Armées chapel at Versailles, the Blessed Virgin
appeared to a young girl named, Marcelle Lanchon (1891-1933) to
convey an important request during WWI as the enemy approached Paris.
The Blessed
Virgin Mary appeared with the following message:
"If, in
union with my Divine Son, I love all the nations which he has
redeemed with His Blood, see how I particularly cherish your dear
fatherland. (i.e France) My Son wants you to make images and
statues representing me thus, and to be invoked under the name of
“Our Lady Queen of France” If you respond to this new desire of
His Divine Heart, France will become particularly mine again. I will
take it forever under my maternal protection and my Son will be
pleased to spread abundant blessings over it.”
Our Lady
then appeared again the same day, this time, she was surrounded by
clouds, but the clouds dispersed, showing her dressed in a blue coat,
dotted with lily flowers, edged with white ermine. She wore a crown
with three lilies representing royalty. The image then changed: she
opened her arms as pictured in the Miraculous Medal, showing her
dressed in a white dress and a blue belt falling in a tricolour
scarf...her feet placed on half of a terrestrial globe on which was
inscribed the word "France”, her foot crushing a serpent, a
sign to show that France would not be conquered by Satan as long as
She was Queen. Our Lady then raised her eyes to Heaven and asked
her to pray for France, which they did together.
Our Lady
then revealed the following prayer that she wished to be spread:
“My
Son, forgive her, (France) she still loves you since she never
stopped loving me.”
Our Lady
requested this prayer be included with the image representing her in
the second part of the vision – (i.e. with her arms spread down to
France) and to also to add the words to the image:
“See
how I cherish my people.”
She the
revealed a second prayer to be recited before the statue of Our Lady
of France once it was erected:
“O Mary
conceived without sin, our good Mother who wanted us to invoke You
under the term so consoling to our hearts, QUEEN OF FRANCE, see
prostrate at your feet your unhappy Subjects. Have mercy on us, be
our Advocate with Your divine Son, our beloved King. We know that we
have greatly offended Him, outraged even, that we have despised His
commandments, trampled on the holy laws of His Church; but we also
know, O lovable Sovereign, that You are all powerful on the Heart of
this King of love who Himself only asks to forgive; therefore grant
us this national and individual Peace so much desired by all for the
greater glory of Your dear Son. So be it! Amen!”
Of interest,
according to Alain Denizot's “The Sacred Heart and the Great War",
(Editions: New Latin editions), on the same day of September 8, 1914
when the vision of Our Lady Queen of France occurred in Versailles, the Blessed Virgin appeared on the Marne in
the afternoon facing the German army which was heading to Paris and
stopped its advance. More than 100,000 men saw it and some, including
a German priest, testified to it. It is said this was the secret of
Marshal Foch but at them time it was then forbidden to speak of this
vision, under penalty of death.
Here are
several accounts some of the supernatural occurrences that happened
on the Marne:
*) A
specific testimony from Madame Tripet-Nizery, widow of Captain Tripet
who died in action on September 4, 1916: she declared that being a
nurse in the ambulance of the École Polytechnique, from the end of
1914 to June 1916, she received a wounded who had participated in the
Battle of the Marne on the French side. He confided to her: "When
we were ordered to leave, a woman in white, in front of the trench,
was dragging us".
*) Le
Courrier, newspaper of Saint-Lô, published on January 8, 1917 a
letter dated January 3, 1915. A German priest, wounded and taken
prisoner at the Battle of the Marne, died in a French ambulance where
there were religious. He said to them: “As a soldier, I should
remain silent; as a priest, I think I have to say what I saw.
During the battle, we were surprised to be driven back because we
were legion compared to the French, and we expected to arrive in
Paris. But we saw the Blessed Virgin all dressed in white, with a
blue belt, tilted towards Paris… She turned her back on us and,
with her right hand, seemed to repel us. "
*) Two
German officers, prisoners and wounded, testified as the dead priest
had done on January 3, 1915. One of them says: "If I were on
the front, I would be shot, because it was forbidden to tell, under
pain of death, what I am going to tell you: you were surprised by our
sudden retreat when we arrived at the gates of Paris. We could not
go further, a Virgin stood before us, arms outstretched, pushing us
whenever we were ordered to move forward. For several days we did not
know if it was one of your national saints, Geneviève or Jeanne
d'Arc. Afterwards, we understood that it was the Blessed Virgin who
nailed us on the spot. On September 8, She pushed us away with such
force, that all of us, as one man, fled. What I tell you, you will
no doubt hear it later, because we are perhaps 100,000 men who have
seen it. "
"See
how I cherish her, when will she fulfil my dearest desire? I want to
see the image of my Heart painted on its flags.”
On June 20 ,
Marcelle prayed in this same chapel. She was looking towards the
tabernacle. Christ
appeared to her a second time, in supernatural clarity, dressed in
the same tricolour scarf, girded with a golden crown decorated with
lily flowers and a purple cloak, like a Bourbon king. His feet
rested on a globe where the word "France" was
written in golden letters.
His Heart,
which He showed with his left hand, "crowned with thorns and
bloody", appeared on the white of the stole. On the red was
written: "He wants to reign over France."
(NOTE: When
Christ revealed the devotion to His Sacred Heart to St. Margaret
Mary, He also requested His Sacred Heart to be placed on the royal
standard of France, which would have ensured its protection, but
Louis XIV did not comply, neither did his successor until Louis XVI consecrated the country to the Sacred Heart in his prison cell, but it was almost too late to the detriment of
the country. It is rather
surprising that Our Lady and Our Lord would appear here with the
tricolour of the French Republic as it is revealed in the visions of
Marie-Julie Jahenny that Heaven considers the tricolour 'impure
colors' of the diabolical Masonic Republic that supplanted the White
Flag of the Catholic Monarchy, the flag Heaven promises to restore to
France, but it is possible at this point Heaven was giving the democratic government another chance to
do the right thing. The Republic had already built the basilica of
Sacre Coeur as a 'propitiation' church after the horrors of the
Franco-Prussian war in the mid 1800s, the national Church the Sacred
Heart had requested from the kings along with having His Heart placed
on the flag. Marie-Julie Jahenny revealed the future of France was
now saved thanks to the building of the national church dedicated to
the Sacred Heart-one of the conditions fulfilled, even if it was fulfilled by the Republic and not the Monarchy as Heaven would have liked. So, a grace was given. Now, the Republic must have
been given a chance to place that Heart on the flags as requested,
even if it is the tricolour. God always gives nations a chance to do what is right. So far, the Republic of France has refused. It may continue to refuse as the other Great Monarch prophecies predict the Republic will be swept away to make room for the restoration of the Monarchy.)
Many of the
faithful supported Marcelle in her revelations; and the
ecclesiastical authorities were informed of the facts. But the
First World War buried the file: no investigation was officially
declared. Nevertheless, she was not condemned, and the local Bishop of
Versailles, Mgr Roland-Gosselin, (bishop from 1931-1952) authorised
the printing of the Image of Mary, Queen of France, as well as the
revealed prayer, which he indulgenced.
She became
Sister Marie France and was one of the first members of the Pious
Union of Adorers of the Heart of Jesus, a lay sister organisation.
Its goal was to prayer and make sacrifices for the reign of the
Sacred Heart and the salvation of France. Initially, the order did not have official status from the Church, in
fact, Sr. Marie France would not live to see it approved, however,
the congregation was officially authorised in 1939.
Sr. Marie
France made a vow offering herself as a victim on June 11, 1915.
All the sisters of this congregation made the vow of the victim,
placing themselves at the disposal of the Divine Priest for His work
of Salvation. In 1933 a the age of 41, Sr. Marie France she died of
tuberculosis, after excruciating pain. Her doctor testified that
her pains were abnormally acute, and that she displayed all her
reason, as well as a calm and moderate temperament. She was buried
in the same tomb as the superior mother of her congregation, Sr.
Marguerite Marie. In 1934, frescoes representing the apparitions
were painted in the chapel of Notre Dame des Armées in Versailles.
The Pious Union died out and went extinct for lack of nuns who wished
to join this congregation.
Of interest, Sr. Marie France continued to have visions and mystic experiences, but told no one
about it except her fellow sisters as in humility she did not wish to
be noticed but only to be hidden. A handful of her prophecies have
been transmitted thanks to the Mother Superior of the
Pious Union of Adorers, Sr. Marguerite Marie, who wrote a few in few
diary, and, they are Great Monarch prophecies.
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France will
no longer be called France but 'New France'. (NOTE: of interest, in the visions of Marie-Julie Jahenny, Our Lady called France, 'My New France' in regards to the future promised restoration, and, Our Lord also said to Marie-Julie He wished to rebuild a NEW France for His Mother. The Holy Spirit and St. Michael also mentioned 'the new France' in her revelations.)
It will be
thanks to Brittany that it will not be cursed by God. (NOTE: again we see this in Marie-Julie Jahnney's prophecies, that Brittany will be spared much of the chastiments as devotion to Our Lady is strongest there.)
They will
wonder for a long time why there remained a green leaf on the dead
branch of France.
Versailles,
which will carry as its motto "between heaven and earth",
will see the Virgin Mary enthroned Queen of France, by the King of
the Sacred Heart. (i.e the Great Monarch)
This one
will come on foot to the gates of the castle and will give his crown
to King Louis XVI and the diadem to Marie Antoinette, before the
people of France who will be in such bad health that he will have
tears in his eyes. (I.e. He will weep at the state in which he finds
the people).
This king
will be more like a priest than a monarch.
He will have
his cathedrals rebuilt with the help of all nations.
(Source:
“Les apparitions à Versailles, Marie, Reine de France, Jésus Roi
de France “, Anonyme, Edition Pierre Téqui, 2005”)
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