The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté du Morbihan, Lorient, France, page 12, le 21 octobre 1954.
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Saint-Tropez. -- The account of a strange apparition witnessed, about fifteen days ago in Ramatuelle, by a well-digger from Saint-Tropez and his assistant, is beginning to cause a certain stir in the region and is already attracting groups of pilgrims.
Mr. Marius Giraud and his worker, Mr. Duperrier, were finishing up work on a well in the commune of Ramatuelle.
It was broad daylight. Suddenly, Mr. Duperrier, who was leaning over the well, was surprised to see stars reflected in the water. He lifted his head, Mr. Giraud recounts, and, very pale, eyes wide open, said to me: "Look behind you...".
"Then," continues the well-digging foreman, "I saw the Holy Virgin two or three meters from the well. She was wearing a long blue robe and had a golden crown on her head. She stretched her arm toward the sea, in the direction of Pampelonne, and disappeared into a kind of cloud."
It was on this beach that the first French liberation forces landed in 1944, and it was off this same bay that the submarine "La Sibylle" sank in September 1952.
The two well-diggers are known in Saint-Tropez and the region for being conscientious and respectable workers. However, when the news began to spread, people were struck by the fact that neither of them is known for religious devotion. On the contrary, both men are completely indifferent to anything religious, and their political views would even seem to distance them further from religion.
The religious authorities are maintaining their customary prudence in this matter. All that remains is the testimony of the two visionaries.
