Pope Leo XIV has approved a definitive declaration from the doctrinal office stating that the rumored 1970s apparitions of Jesus Christ to Catholic mother Madeleine Aumont in Dozulé, France—which supposedly included a command to build a 2,000-foot cross—are “not supernatural in origin” and should be disregarded by the faithful.
The Catholic Church has formally closed the book on the decades-old controversy surrounding the alleged appearances of Jesus Christ in the French town of Dozulé, which began when Madeleine Aumont claimed the Lord appeared to her 49 times in the 1970s and commanded the construction of an enormous, illuminated cross.
In a declaration approved by Pope Leo XIV, the doctrinal office stated that the phenomenon is “to be regarded, definitively, as not supernatural in origin,” thereby purifying the faith from sensational, unverified claims. A Dominican friar noted that the decision serves as a reminder that the hope of the Church is not anchored in private revelations or speculation, but in the established truths of the Gospel and the power of the sacraments.