Ormans near Evilliers, France — 15 August 1803
Luminous globes and a religious discovery
Two luminous globes emit sun-like rays and hover over a tree. Witnesses: Pierre Mille, from Malcote, with his three daughters and a local craftsman. The whole family was on its way to church for the Feast of the Assumption when they saw two small lights in front of an oak tree, inside which a small statue of the Virgin Mary was found upon investigation. Some time before (at Easter) the youngest daughter of Pierre Mille had seen the Virgin accompanied by two small floating lights at the same spot, “on the path between Maizieres and Ornans.”
Source: Abbe Louis Leroy, Histoire des Pelerinages de la Sainte Vierge en France, Tome II (Paris, 1874), 265. 379. Case: W331