December 14
End of the Apparitions at Ile Bouchard (France, 1947)
Our Lady of I'le Bouchard
Give Me Your Hand to Kiss
The Lady slowly motioned the children to approach, with her right index finger raised chin-high under the right side of her face. Then she slowly gestured to them to come forward and stretched her hand, lowering the arm that she had lifted, palm up. "Give me your hand to kiss," she said.
The young girls weren't afraid anymore. Jacqueline was the first to draw closer, on her tippy toes. The Lady turned her hand over her hand and held it out flat. The oldest girl touched her index finger with her fingertips.
Very slowly, the Lady bent her head down as she lifted the girl's fingers to her lips. Toward the second phalanx of the index, middle-finger and ring-finger, she gently placed a silent kiss.
Then it was Nicole's turn. The Lady bent down a little lower. Laura and Jeannette were too short. Spontaneously, Jacqueline picked them from under their arms and held them up, effortlessly, one after the other. All four in their emotion felt both the softness of the skin and the warmth of the Lady's lips from the contact on their right hands.
(...)
While leaving the church, first Jacqueline then Laura and Jeannette, realized that a white oval spot remained on their fingers. It was the trace of the kiss. "Let's hurry and show the good sister," said the eldest girl, "she will have to believe us this time." Sadly enough, although they kept looking at the marks on their hand until they reached the school, upon their arrival, the marks faced away one after the other.
Mgr. Fiot, L'Ile-Bouchard (December 8-14, 1947), 1951
Ave Maria!
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