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  1. 3 days ago · On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. In Lourdes, France, in 1858, thirteen-year-old Bernadette Soubirous was collecting pieces of wood as part of her daily chores when she noticed a startling wind and rustling sound. The noise came from a nearby grotto.

  2. 4 days ago · Our Lady of Lourdes. Feast Day: February 11 – CNA. On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, recalling a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14-year-old French peasant girl, Saint Bernadette Soubirous.

  3. 5 days ago · On Feb. 14, 1858, following her second apparition conversing and praying with the Blessed Virgin Mary at the grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes, France, Bernadette Soubirous sat on a chair in the Savy Mill, weeping for joy as she recovered from her rapturous encounter with the beautiful, unknown visitor whom she called “The Lady.”

  4. 1 day ago · Homily given on 25 July 2024 for the Lourdes Leaving Mass. So, we come to take our leave of Lourdes. Bernadette said leaving Lourdes was the greatest sacrifice of her life. But she knew she must leave. We hear in today’s Gospel how Jesus was followed by crowds. Well, the same was happening to Bernadette. She’d begun to be followed ...

  5. 1 day ago · t. e. A Marian apparition is a reported supernatural appearance by Mary the mother of Jesus, or a series of related such appearances during a period of time. In the Catholic Church, in order for a reported appearance to be classified as a Marian apparition, the person or persons who claim to see Mary (the "seers") must claim that they see her ...

  6. 3 days ago · Saint Bridget of Sweden, whose feast we celebrate on July 23, was a wife and mother, a mystic and writer. Her private revelations have influenced Marian theology down to the present day. And yet in her own life, St. Bridget could perhaps have viewed herself as a failure. She heard a call to found a religious order.

  7. 2 days ago · That is, the one that Bernadette had in Lourdes, while she was gathering wood, she saw a lady and was astonished. Bernadette saw and heard that lady who was saying some things. In the case of Maccio’s choirmaster, things were different. In this case the vision is interior, intellectual. Gioacchino is a participant in an experience.