In 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes in southern France, Our Lady appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl. She revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception ...
In Lourdes, France, in 1844 a baby girl named Bernadette Soubirous was born. Bernadette’s family was very poor, and Bernadette was responsible for looking after and caring for her brothers and ...
At the end of the musical, members of the Missionaries of Charity order founded by St. Teresa of Calcutta offered each guest ...
People cured of multiple diseases and disabilities after visiting the shrine provoked global interest that endures to this ...
It’s what we need. Pilgrims flood in daily to this site where a young, otherwise unknown, and would-be long-forgotten girl named Bernadette saw the Mother of God. In 2004, Saint John Paul II was ...
Her parents gave her the middle name Bernadette, in reference to Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who for all her life claimed to have witnessed eighteen apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes ...
Lourdes has been an important pilgrimage site since 1858 when a 14-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous claimed to see a vision of the Virgin Mary. After the vision of Mary appeared ...