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Story of St. Bernadette Little fourteen year old uneducated Bernadette Soubirous was living in the unknown town of Lourdes in the Pyrenees Mountains in the south of France in 1858 when she was blessed with the favor to see the Mother of God eighteen times in the Grotto on the outskirts of the village.
Feb 10, 2017 · February 11 is the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, one of the most famous apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary that took place in southern France. On this day in 1858 a young, poor girl named Bernadette Soubirous was out collecting firewood with her sister and another friend near a grotto when she saw a vision of a lovely lady.In the words of St. Bernadette,"I raised my head and looked ...
Biography of Bernadette Soubirous. As a young 14-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubirous had multiple visions of the Blessed Lady in a grotto in the outskirts of Lourdes. Although her visions were widely doubted at the time, her humility, truthfulness and modesty encouraged many to believe.
Sep 30, 2016 · Bernadette herself moved away from Lourdes and joined a nunnery in Nevers, where she lived the rest of her life. She died in 1879 of tuberculosis. As part of the canonization process, ...
Bernadette of Lourdes: Directed by Robert Darène. With Danièle Ajoret, Bernard Lajarrige, Madeleine Sologne, Henri Nassiet. Few legends have been woven from humbler stuff, and this particular encounter between one of the poorest peasant girls in a tiny village of the Pyrenées and "the Lady" led to events that shook not only France but the entire Christian world.
THE BODY OF SAINT BERNADETTE OF LOURDES. Andre Ravier, S.J. Based on documents in the archives of the convent of Saint-Gildard, of the diocese and the city of Nevers. Very fine wax masks were laid over the face and hands of St. Bernadette's body in 1925 to disguise the sunken eyes and nose and the blackish tinge to the face and hands.
Bernadette had to tell her story over and over again, sometimes to village and church leaders who weren’t very kind to her and her family. Today, millions of people go to Lourdes every year, to the grotto where Bernadette saw Mary. They go to pray. They go to wash their sick bodies in the spring Mary told Bernadette about.
