The pilgrimage
Why this road exists
To pray for peace in the place a war was asked to halt.
How the days are spent
The message is almost nothing but prayer. That is enough.
Pontmain
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pontmain
January 1871, a Prussian army in the next valley, children looking up. A lady in the sky, a message that unrolled like a banner: But pray, my children. God will hear you in a short time. The advance stopped. Approved. A village still looking up.
Pontmain, MayenneFeast 17 January
The signs of this place
The apparition, the Gospel sign, the body, the image — whatever this place is known for, told as a file of its own.
