On 4 May 2008, Bishop Jean-Michel di Falco of the Diocese of Gap officially recognized the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Benoite Rencurel at the Sanctuary of Laus in the area of Hautes-Alpes, France.

[4] In a homily during a Mass at the Marian basilica in the town of Laus, Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseille, France, said that Rencurel had first seen Mary after being guided by a pervasive scent of violets near her home in Saint-Etienne d'Avancon in May 1664 and later, in 1673, she experienced a vision of Christ bleeding on the village cross.

[5] In September the Blessed Mother directed Rencurel to " Notre Dame de la Bonne Rencontre", an abandoned chapel in the village of Le Laus, and asked for a church to be built, with a house for priests to take confessions.

[6] At the shrine in Laus, Benoîte is said to have had the gift of reading hearts and so many people came to ask her advice that she had to attend mass through a small window in the gallery of the Church.

Numerous physical healings have also been associated with the site, especially when oil from a lamp is applied on the wounds according to the directives the Virgin Mary gave to Rencurel.