On September 19, 1846, we saw a beautiful Lady. We never said that this lady was the Blessed Virgin but we always said that it was a beautiful Lady.

Here is what this Lady said to me | "If my people continue, what I will say to you will arrive earlier, if it changes a little, it will be a little later. | France has corrupted the universe, one day it will be punished. The faith will die out in France: three quarters of France will not practice religion anymore, or almost no more, the other part will practice it without really practicing it. Then, after [that], nations will convert, the faith will be rekindled everywhere. | A great country in the north of Europe, now Protestant, will be converted; by the support of this country all the other nations of the world will be converted. | Before all that arrives, great disorders will arrive, in the Church, and everywhere. Then, after [that], our Holy Father the Pope will be persecuted. His successor will be a pontiff that nobody expects. | Then, after [that], a great peace will come, but it will not last a long time. A monster will come to disturb it. | All that I tell you here will arrive in the other century, at the latest in the year two thousand." | Maximin Giraud | (She told me to say it some time before.) | My Most Holy Father, your holy blessing to one of your sheep. | Message sent by Giraud to Pope Pius IX, as published by .