Our Lady of Beauraing

**Our Lady of Beauraing** (French: *Notre-Dame de Beauraing*), also known as the **Virgin of the Golden Heart** (*Vierge au Cœur d'Or*), is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with 33 Marian apparitions to five children in Beauraing, Belgium, between November 29, 1932, and January 3, 1933. ## The Apparitions The five visionary children were Fernande (15), Gilberte (13), and Albert (11) Voisin, along with Andrée (14) and Gilberte (9) Degeimbre. The apparitions began when the children went to collect Gilberte Voisin from the convent school of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine. Albert first noticed a luminous figure of a woman dressed in white walking above a railway bridge near the Lourdes grotto. Over the following weeks, Mary appeared 33 times, usually near a hawthorn tree in the convent garden. On December 21, 1932, she identified herself, saying: *"I am the Immaculate Virgin."* When asked why she came, she replied: *"So that people might come here on pilgrimages."* On December 29, 1932, Mary opened her arms in farewell and revealed a radiant golden heart surrounded by brilliant rays—the vision that gave her the title *Virgin of the Golden Heart*. During the final apparition on January 3, 1933, witnessed by 30,000 people, she made her great promise: *"I will convert sinners. I am the Mother of God, the Queen of Heaven."* ## Church Approval Bishop André-Marie Charue of Namur authorized public devotion to Our Lady of Beauraing on February 2, 1943. The apparitions received full approval on July 2, 1949, along with recognition of two miraculous healings attributed to her intercession. ## Feast Day Our Lady of Beauraing is commemorated on **November 29**, the anniversary of the first apparition. The feast was originally placed on August 22, coinciding with the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.