On a misty fall evening in 1932, four were walking together to their local convent school in the small town of Beauraing, Belgium to pick up a fifth child when the group noticed a glowing white figure of a woman hovering in the air nearby. Startled, they exclaimed to each other that it looked like the Blessed Virgin Mary. The children -- Fernande Voisin (15), Albert Voisin (11), Andrée Degeimbre (14), and Gilberte Degeimbre (9) -- saw the figure glide through the air above a grotto commemorating , beside a hawthorn . She wore a white dress and veil, her feet blended into a cloud beneath them, and around her head .
The children rushed past the figure to pick up Gilberte Voisin (13), and when they pointed out the apparition to her, she could see it, too. However, the nun who answered the convent door that night couldn't see the apparition and told the kids they must be mistaken. After telling the nun that they felt afraid because something (whatever it was) was definitely there, they ran all the way back to their homes. Their parents didn't believe their stories about the apparition, either.
This was to be the first of 33 appearances Mary would make in Beauraing between November 1932 and January 1933.
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