La Vang, over 100,000 pilgrims at Sanctuary of the Apparitions
The Virgin appeared for the first time in the forest in 1798, to comfort the Catholics persecuted by the king. Bishop Dominic Nguyễn Văn Mạnh, auxiliary bishop of Đà Lạt: "Here we meet Mary in a more special way, because she promised, 'Anyone who comes here to pray to me will be heard.'" Vietnamese devotion to Our Lady.
