Where our Lady of Hope Statue appears:

Portmann is a small village of simple, hard-working country people guided by the parish priest, Abbe Michel Guerin. The Bernadette family includes father Cesar, his wife Victoire, their two sons Joseph and Eugene, aged 10 and 12, respectively, and another older boy in the army. On the evening of January 17, 1871, two boys were helping their father in a barn when their oldest son, Eugene, came to the door and looked out. As he gazed at the starry sky, he noticed that there were few stars in an area above the neighboring houses. Suddenly, he saw the vision of a beautiful woman smiling at him. That’s our Lady of Hope Statue. Our Lady of Hope statue wore a blue robe decorated with gold stars and a black veil under a gold crown.

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The appearance of Our Lady of Hope Statue:

The adults in the crowd, which had now grown to about sixty, including the priest, still blind, began to recite their rosaries, and the children exclaimed that something new had happened. A blue oval frame with four candles, two on the shoulders and two on the knees, formed around the lady, and a short Red Cross appear on the heart of our Lady of Hope statue. As the rosary progresses, the number and its frame grow larger and larger until it is twice the size of a real person; The stars around the Our Lady of Hope statue began to multiply and attached to her dress until it was covered with them. Four children shouted, “Something else has happened.” A wide streamer is unrolled at the feet of our Lady of Hope statue showing letters that eventually make it possible to read the words “But pray, my children”. There are magical stories behind many sculptures, and every religious sculpture is worth commemorating.

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