You recognize here the Spanish ideal of beauty imagined by the Abbess.
"Again in, turn to Sister Emmerich.

According to her, Mary was fair-haired, with large eyes, a rather long nose, a narrow-pointed chin, a clear skin, and not very tall.

Here we have the description given by a German who does not admire dark beauty: "And yet both of these women were real Seers, to whom the Madonna appeared, assuming in each case the only aspect that could fascinate them; just as she was seen to be the model of mere prettiness--the only type they could understand--by Melanie at La Salette and Bernadette at Lourdes".
"Well, I, who am no visionary, and who must appeal to my imagination to picture Her at all, I fancy I discern Her under the forms and expressions of the cathedral itself; the features are a little confused in the pale splendour of the great rose window that blazes behind Her head like a nimbus.

She smiles, and Her eyes, all light, have the incomparable effulgence of those pure sapphires which light up the entrance to the nave.

Her slight form is diffused in a clear robe of flame, striped and ribbed like the drapery of the so-called Berthe.