Although it doesn’t look like an obvious pilgrim location, No. 140 rue du Bac on Paris’ left bank attracts thousands of visitors each year.
This is the place where the famous Miraculous Medal originated as a result of the first modern apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Anyone in the seventh arrondisement can direct strangers to the entrance arch in a featureless convent wall that opens into a broad, open-air passageway. This in turn leads to the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal where St. Catherine Labour‚, in 1830 was visited three times by the Virgin Mary.
