They struggle mightily. I have no idea how many are cured. But I’m guessing just to be where the Blessed Virgin Mary once spoke to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, whose feast the Church celebrates ...

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 ...

St. Bernadette Soubirous is understandably considered the most beautiful incorrupt saint of the Catholic Church. Her scientifically inexplicably well preserved body was not embalmed, refrigerated ...

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 ...

The reported healing of an Italian woman during a pilgrimage to Lourdes has been officially recognised as the 72nd “miracle” ...

(OSV News) -- In a joyful moment after the rosary on St. Bernadette Soubirous' feast day April 16 at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, the shrine's rector, Father Michel Daubanes, ...

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 ...

Lourdes, France: July 16 marks the anniversary of purported visions of Mary in 1858 by a young girl, Bernadette Soubirous, and the discovery of allegedly healing spring waters in southern France ...

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 ...

"Bernadette de Lourdes" is the story of the fascinating and inspiring Marian apparitions to the young Bernadette Soubirous. Based on official documents, the 5 main characters succeed in bringing ...

French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (portrayed ... Chronicling Bernadette's years with the Sisters of Charity of Nevers ...

In Lourdes, a place of pilgrimage for Christians worldwide, the faithful prayed for the "pope of the poor" after learning of ...