Église Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours de Neuvizy

About

Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Basilica is a Roman Catholic basilica located in the village of Neuvizy in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of France. A pilgrimage in the church and on the Marial Road located at the exit of the village is organized in May and every 15 August, allowing Neuvizy to have as nickname Le Lourdes Ardennais. Pope John Paul II decided to erect him in the basilica in 2002.

Situation: Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Basilica is located on the large square of the village of Neuvizy at the crossing of the street of the church and of the rue Géromont.

History: On April 30, 1752, eight children, going to the catechism in Villers-le-Tourneur, discovered a statuette of the Blessed Virgin, surrounded by a halo of light, near a small fountain on an oak in the woods of Neuvizy, they kneeled down and recited the Salve Regina, the Remember and many prayers and other songs. In 1818, a cross was raised in the forest in the presence of Charles Poit, the last survivor of the event. At that time the village church was still a simple and small construction, but after the multiplication...