Liesse-Notre-Dame (French pronunciation: [ljɛs nɔtʁ dam], before 1988: Liesse)[3] is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Pope Pius IX granted the Marian image a decree of canonical coronation on 18 August 1857.

According to ancient documents, the first shrine of Liesse was built by the pious Bartholomew of Vir, with the stones left over from the construction of Laon Cathedral.

The portal and façade were constructed in the fifteenth century by Bishop of Laon, Charles of Luxembourg (1473–1519), son of the Count of Saint Pol, Constable of France under Louis XI.

Formerly one of the portal stones were engraved with the inscription: As a monument of their piety and their gratitude to the Virgin Mary, this holy temple was built in 1134 by the knights of Eppes.

At a young age, Madame Acarie was brought to Liesse in 1572 by her parents, as was the child Henri Boudon.

Devotion to Our Lady of Joy spread throughout France, particularly to Normandy where there are a number of churches dedicated to Mary under this title.

An annual pilgrimage used to be held in Aude to a is in Fleury sanctuary refounded in the seventeenth century by an archbishop of Narbonne named Louis Vervins.

Sometime in the twelfth century, while protecting the fortress of Bersabee, near Ascalon, they were captured in a Saracene ambush and taken to the Sultan of Egypt.