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On February 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.
The Marian apparitions began on 11 February 1858 and ended on July 16 that year. It received the local bishop's approval after a four-year inquiry.
Coming soon after the 1854 dogmatic definition of her Immaculate Conception, the Virgin Mary's appearances at Lourdes turned the town into a popular travel destination.
Thousands of people say their medical conditions have been cured through pilgrimage, prayer, and the water flowing from a spring to which Bernadette was directed by the Blessed Virgin.
Experts have verified 69 cases of miraculous healing at Lourdes since 1862.
St. Bernadette also has her own liturgical memorial, which occurs February 18 in France and Canada, then April 16 elsewhere.
Born on 7 January 1844, the future visionary was the first child of Francois and Louise, who both worked in a mill run by Francois.
Their family life was loving but difficult. Many of Bernadette's siblings died in childhood, and she developed asthma.
Economic hardship and an injury suffered by her father cost them the mill in 1854.
Years of poverty followed, during which Bernadette often had to live apart from her parents and work rather than attending school.
In January 1858, she returned to her family, whose members were living in a cramped single room.
Strongly committed to her faith, Bernadette made an effort to learn the Church's teachings despite her lack of formal education.
On 11 February 1858, Bernadette went to gather firewood with her sister and a friend.
As she approached a grotto near the river, she saw a light coming from a spot near a rosebush.
The light surrounded a woman who wore a white dress and held a rosary. Seeing the lady in white make the sign of the Cross, Bernadette knelt, took out her own rosary, and began to pray.
When she finished praying, the woman motioned for her to approach. But she remained still, and the vision disappeared.
Her companions had seen nothing. Bernadette described the lady in white to them, demanding they tell no one. But the secret came out later that day.
The next Sunday, Bernadette returned to the grotto, where she saw the woman again. The identity of the apparition, however, would remain unknown for several weeks.
Some adults accompanied Bernadette on her third trip on February 18, though they did not see the vision she received.
The woman in white asked the girl to return for two weeks.
“She told me also,” Bernadette later wrote, “that she did not promise to make me happy in this world, but in the next.”
A group of family members and others went with her to the cave the next day, but only the young peasant girl saw the woman and heard her words.
Over the next few days, the number of people in attendance at the cave swelled to more than 100.
A parish priest, Father Peyramale, became concerned – as did the police.
On February 24, 250 people saw Bernadette break into tears, but only she heard the woman’s message:
“Penance! Penance! Penance! Pray to God for sinners. Go, kiss the ground for the conversion of sinners.”
A larger crowd was there on February 25 – but they were shocked to see Bernadette drinking from a muddy stream and eating weeds.
The apparition had told her to drink the water, and the weed-eating was a penitential act.
Onlookers, meanwhile, saw only the girl’s unusual behavior, and popular fascination turned to ridicule and suspicion.
On February 27, Bernadette made a joyful discovery: the spring from which she drank was not muddy now but clear.
As the crowds continued to gather, this change was noticed, and a woman with a paralyzed arm came to the water hoping to be healed.
Four years later, her case would be recognized as the first miraculous healing at Lourdes.
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The Lourdes Commission that examined Bernadette after the visions ran an intensive analysis on the water and found that, while it had a high mineral content, it contained nothing out of the ordinary that would account for the cures attributed to it.
Bernadette said that it was faith and prayer that cured the sick: "One must have faith and pray; the water will have no virtue without faith."
Public interest continued, and Bernadette heard a recurring message from the vision:
“Go, tell the priests to bring people here in procession and have a chapel built here.”
While others were quick to conclude that Bernadette was seeing the Virgin Mary, the visionary herself did not claim to know the woman’s identity.
As she conveyed the repeated message to Father Peyramale, the priest grew frustrated and told Bernadette to ask the woman her name.
But when she did so, the woman smiled and remained silent. Her identity remained a mystery after the initial two-week period.
Three weeks later, on the Feast of the Annunciation, Bernadette visited the cave again. When she saw the lady, she kept asking to know her identity.
Finally, the woman folded her hands, looked up, and said:
“I am the Immaculate Conception.”
The seer, devout but uneducated, did not know what these words meant. She related them to Father Peyramale, who was stunned and informed his bishop.
Bernadette saw the Blessed Virgin Mary two more times in 1858: on the Wednesday after Easter, and on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
On 18 February 1862, the local bishop declared the apparitions worthy of belief.
St. Bernadette left Lourdes in 1866 to join a religious order in central France, where she died after several years of illness on 16 April 1879.
By the time of her death, a basilica had been built and consecrated at the apparition site, under the leadership of Father Peyramale.
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The Song of Bernadette was a 1943 US  biographical drama movie based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Franz Werfel.  The film stars Jennifer Jones as Bernadette,  the film is the story of Bernadette Soubirous, who experienced 18 visions of the Virgin Mary between February and July of 1858.  She was canonized in 1933. The Cast: Jennifer Jones as Bernadette Soubirous Charles Bickford as Abbé Dominique Peyramale William Eythe as Antoine Nicoleau Gladys Cooper as Marie Therese Vauzou, Bernadette's schoolteacher and later the Mistress of Novices Vincent Price as Vital Dutour, Imperial Prosecutor Lee J. Cobb as Dr. Dozous Anne Revere as Louise Casterot Soubirous, Bernadette's mother Roman Bohnen as François Soubirous, Bernadette's father Mary Anderson as Jeanne Abadie, Bernadette's friend Patricia Morison as Empress Eugenie Jerome Cowan as Emperor Napoleon III Aubrey Mather as Mayor Lacade Charles Dingle as Jacomet, chief of police Edith Barrett as Croisine Bouhouhorts Sig Ruman as Louis Bouriette Blanche Yurka as Bernarde Casterot, Bernadette's aunt Ermadean Walters as Marie Soubirous, Bernadette's sister Marcel Dalio as Callet Pedro de Cordoba as Dr. LeCramps Eula Morgan as Madame Nicoleau Let Mr. P notify you when new videos are uploaded, join the channel. https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics
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St. Bernadette’s Testament of Gratitude
As we read in Luke 17:12-19,
As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, they called out, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were made clean. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus asked, “Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then he said to him, “Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well.
In the above parable the Lord connects faith, healing and gratitude together. St. Bernadette Soubirous, the famed visionary of Lourdes, France helped me to understand the intertwining of faith that heals and produces the fruit of gratitude. She greatly influenced my spiritual life in 1992 during a pilgrimage to the miraculous shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes.
When I beheld the miraculous shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes for the first time it took my breath away. I marveled at the sublime beauty of the shrine, architecture, and surrounding landscape. The tangible presence of Mary envelops the area. I was overwhelmed by thousands of international pilgrims during nighttime candlelit processions punctuated with Marian hymns. I was moved to tears observing the faith of the sick people from the nearby hospital wheeled out on gurneys to attend holy Mass and healing services led by priests. Their attendees seemed somewhat angelic. I stared at the countless number of crutches, wheelchairs, canes and other mementos of gratitude hanging on the side of the mountainous shrine as testaments to numerous miraculous healings. My faith, hope and love grew in leaps and bounds there. I never made it into the miraculous bathes with healing waters due to the crowds of people but I realized the urgency of so many sick people. I still received interior healing and strengthening of my vocation as wife, mother and servant daughter of the Church as I prayed in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament or sat on the banks of the River Gave praying the rosary for many intentions carried in my heart.
We were given a tour of the residence of the Soubirous family—a place of abject poverty. By the time of the events at the grotto, her family’s financial and social status had declined to the point where they lived in a one-room basement, formerly used as a jail, called “the dungeon,” where they were housed for free by her mother’s cousin.
In Nevers I was able to view the body of St. Bernadette and was shocked to find the saint encased in a stately glass coffin on display looking as if she was sleeping. For the first time I learned about the grace of incorrupt bodies of saints. It is reported that Bishop Gauthey of Nevers and the Church exhumed the body of Bernadette Soubirous on 22 September 1909, in the presence of representatives appointed by the postulators of the cause, two doctors and a sister of the community. They claimed that although the crucifix in her hand and her rosary had both oxidized, her body appeared incorrupt — preserved from decomposition. This was cited as one of the miracles to support her canonization, which took place on 8 December 1933 by Pope Pius XI.
One would think that a young girl favored by God to receive apparitions of The Immaculate Conception would have a blessed life. Her blessings included severe physical suffering, widespread persecutions from her many detractors including some family members, priests and religious sisters in the convent that she entered. She eventually died of her long-term illness at the age of 35 on 16 April 1879.
Only a person who has faith is able to be grateful for everything. This gratitude will be visible on our face as joy for everything may be changed into good. “For the ones who love God, all things work for good, even sin” (cf. Rom 8, 28). Therefore, even a fall into sin which is a great misfortune, and at the same time hurts Jesus, can be an opportunity within which is hidden some kind of talent given to you in that situation from which you can profit. You only need your faith or conversion towards such faith that will enable you to look through the eyes of Jesus. He, looking at your life that may be filled with failures, problems, conflicts, unfulfilled plans, everyday difficulties, is never sad. He is joyful because He expects all those things to bear fruit and that you will take advantage of them.
St. Bernadette looked at her life in simple thanksgiving for everything. Her testament is an exceptional statement of gratitude. In her words:
1. For the poverty in which my mother and father lived, for the failure of the mill, all the hard times, for the awful sheep, for constant tiredness, thank you, my God! 2. For lips, which I was feeding too much, for the dirty noses of the children, for the guarded sheep, I thank you! 3. Thank you, my God, for the prosecutor and the police commissioner, for the policemen, and for the harsh words of Father Peyramale! 4. For the days in which you came, Mary, for the ones in which you did not come, I will never be able to thank you…only in Paradise. 5. For the slap in the face, for the ridicule, the insults, and for those who suspected me for wanting to gain something from it, thank you, my Lady. 6. For my spelling, which I never learned, for the memory that I never had, for my ignorance and for my stupidity, thank you. 7. For the fact that my mother died so far away, for the pain I felt when my father instead of hugging his little Bernadette called me, “Sister Marie-Bernard”, I thank you, Jesus. 8. I thank you for the heart you gave me, so delicate and sensitive, which you filled with bitterness. 9. For the fact that Mother Josephine proclaimed that I was good for nothing, thank you. For the sarcasm of the Mother Superior: her harsh voice, her injustices, her irony and for the bread of humiliation, thank you. 10. Thank you that I was the privileged one when it came to be reprimanded, so that my sisters said, “How lucky it is not to be Bernadette.” 11. Thank you for the fact that it is me, who was the Bernadette threatened with imprisonment because she had seen you, Holy Virgin; regarded by people as a rare animal; that Bernadette so wretched, that upon seeing her, it was said, “Is that it?” 12. For this miserable body which you gave me, for this burning and suffocating illness, for my decaying tissues, for my de-calcified bones, for my sweats, for my fever, for my dullness and for my acute pains, thank you, my God. 13. And for this soul which you have given me, for the desert of inner dryness, for your night and the lightening, for your silences and your thunders, for everything. 14. For you-when you were present and when you were not—thank you, Jesus. (Saint Bernadette, Saint Bernadette Soubirous, Abbe Francois Trochu) 15. No matter how wonderful or difficult your present situation may be it will pass as all things do. In all circumstances you owe God a debt of gratitude for He is always faithful to complete the good work begun in you (Phil. 1:6).
This Thanksgiving let us thank the Lord with our personal testament of gratitude. In turn He will whisper to us, “your faith has made you well.”
St. Bernadette, pray for us.
BY: KATHLEEN BECKMAN
From: https://www.pamphletstoinspire.com/
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St. Bernadette’s Testament of Gratitude: “For the poverty in which my mother and father lived, for the failure of the mill, all the hard times, for the awful sheep, for constant tiredness, thank you, my God!
For lips, which I was feeding too much, for the dirty noses of the children, for the guarded sheep, I thank you!
Thank you, my God, for the prosecutor and the police commissioner, for the policemen, and for the harsh words of Father Peyramale!
For the days in which you came, Mary, for the ones in which you did not come, I will never be able to thank you…only in Paradise.
For the slap in the face, for the ridicule, the insults, and for those who suspected me for wanting to gain something from it, thank you, my Lady.
For my spelling, which I never learned, for the memory that I never had, for my ignorance and for my stupidity, thank you.
For the fact that my mother died so far away, for the pain I felt when my father instead of hugging his little Bernadette called me, “Sister Marie-Bernard”, I thank you, Jesus.
I thank you for the heart you gave me, so delicate and sensitive, which you filled with bitterness.
For the fact that Mother Josephine proclaimed that I was good for nothing, thank you. For the sarcasm of the Mother Superior: her harsh voice, her injustices, her irony and for the bread of humiliation, thank you.
Thank you that I was the privileged one when it came to be reprimanded, so that my sisters said, “How lucky it is not to be Bernadette.” Thank you for the fact that it is me, who was the Bernadette threatened with imprisonment because she had seen you, Holy Virgin; regarded by people as a rare animal; that Bernadette so wretched, that upon seeing her, it was said, “Is that it?” For this miserable body which you gave me, for this burning and suffocating illness, for my decaying tissues, for my de-calcified bones, for my sweats, for my fever, for my dullness and for my acute pains, thank you, my God.
And for this soul which you have given me, for the desert of inner dryness, for your night and the lightening, for your silences and your thunders, for everything.”
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Our Lady of Lourdes
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Our Lady of Lourdes
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. The Marian apparitions began Feb. 11, 1858, ended July 16 that year and received the local bishop’s approval after a four-year inquiry. Coming soon after the 1854 dogmatic definition of her Immaculate Conception, the Virgin Mary’s appearances at Lourdes turned the town into a popular travel destination. Thousands of people say their medical conditions have been cured through pilgrimage, prayer and the water flowing from a spring to which Bernadette was directed by the Blessed Virgin. Experts have verified 67 cases of miraculous healing at Lourdes since 1862. St. Bernadette also has her own liturgical memorial, which occurs Feb. 18 in France and Canada and April 16 elsewhere. Born in January 1844, the future visionary was the first child of her parents Francois and Louise, who both worked in a mill run by Francois. Their family life was loving but difficult. Many of Bernadette’s siblings died in childhood, and she developed asthma. Economic hardship and an injury suffered by her father cost them the mill in 1854. Years of poverty followed, during which Bernadette often had to live apart from her parents and work rather than attending school. In January 1858 she returned to her family, whose members were living in a cramped single room. Strongly committed to her faith, Bernadette made an effort to learn the Church’s teachings despite her lack of formal education. On Feb. 11, 1858, Bernadette went to gather firewood with her sister and a friend. As she approached a grotto near a river, she saw a light coming from a spot near a rosebush. The light surrounded a woman who wore a white dress and held a rosary. 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On February 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.
The Marian apparitions began on 11 February 1858, ended on July 16 that year, and received the local bishop's approval after a four-year inquiry.
Coming soon after the 1854 dogmatic definition of her Immaculate Conception, the Virgin Mary's appearances at Lourdes turned the town into a popular travel destination.
Thousands of people say their medical conditions have been cured through pilgrimage, prayer and the water flowing from a spring to which Bernadette was directed by the Blessed Virgin.
Experts have verified 69 cases of miraculous healing at Lourdes since 1862.
St. Bernadette also has her own liturgical memorial, which occurs February 18 in France and Canada, and April 16 elsewhere.
Born on 7 January 1844, the future visionary was the first child of her parents Francois and Louise, who both worked in a mill run by Francois.
Their family life was loving but difficult. Many of Bernadette's siblings died in childhood, and she developed asthma.
Economic hardship and an injury suffered by her father cost them the mill in 1854.
Years of poverty followed, during which Bernadette often had to live apart from her parents and work rather than attending school.
In January 1858, she returned to her family, whose members were living in a cramped single room.
Strongly committed to her faith, Bernadette made an effort to learn the Church's teachings despite her lack of formal education.
On 11 February 1858, Bernadette went to gather firewood with her sister and a friend.
As she approached a grotto near a river, she saw a light coming from a spot near a rosebush.
The light surrounded a woman who wore a white dress and held a rosary.
Seeing the lady in white make the sign of the Cross, Bernadette knelt, took out her own rosary, and began to pray.
When she finished praying, the woman motioned for her to approach. But she remained still, and the vision disappeared. Her companions had seen nothing.
Bernadette described the lady in white to them, demanding they tell no one. But the secret came out later that day.
The next Sunday, Bernadette returned to the grotto, where she saw the woman again.
The identity of the apparition, however, would remain unknown for several weeks.
Some adults accompanied Bernadette on her third trip on February 18, though they did not see the vision she received.
The woman in white asked the girl to return for two weeks.
“She told me also,” Bernadette later wrote, “that she did not promise to make me happy in this world, but in the next.”
A group of family members and others went with her to the cave the next day, but only the young peasant girl saw the woman and heard her words.
Over the next few days, the number of people in attendance at the cave swelled to more than 100.
A parish priest, Father Peyramale, became concerned – as did the police.
On February 24, 250 people saw Bernadette break into tears, but only she heard the woman’s message:
“Penance! Penance! Penance! Pray to God for sinners. Go, kiss the ground for the conversion of sinners.”
A larger crowd was there on February 25 – but they were shocked to see Bernadette drinking from a muddy stream and eating weeds.
The apparition had told her to drink the water, and the weed-eating was a penitential act.
Onlookers, meanwhile, saw only the girl’s unusual behavior, and popular fascination turned to ridicule and suspicion.
On February 27, Bernadette made a joyful discovery: the spring from which she drank was not muddy now but clear.
As the crowds continued to gather, this change was noticed, and a woman with a paralyzed arm came to the water hoping to be healed.
Four years later, her case would be recognized as the first miraculous healing at Lourdes.
Public interest continued, and Bernadette heard a recurring message from the vision:
“Go, tell the priests to bring people here in procession and have a chapel built here.”
While others were quick to conclude that Bernadette was seeing the Virgin Mary, the visionary herself did not claim to know the woman’s identity.
As she conveyed the repeated message to Fr. Peyramale, the priest grew frustrated and told Bernadette to ask the woman her name.
But when she did so, the woman smiled and remained silent. Her identity remained a mystery after the initial two-week period.
Three weeks later, on the Feast of the Annunciation, Bernadette visited the cave again.
When she saw the lady, she kept asking to know her identity. Finally, the woman folded her hands, looked up and said:
“I am the Immaculate Conception.”
The seer, devout but uneducated, did not know what these words meant.
She related them to Fr. Peyramale, who was stunned and informed his bishop.
Bernadette saw the Blessed Virgin Mary two more times in 1858: on the Wednesday after Easter, and on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
In 1862, the local bishop declared the apparitions worthy of belief.
St. Bernadette left Lourdes in 1866 to join a religious order in central France, where she died after several years of illness on 16 April 1879.
By the time of her death, a basilica had been built and consecrated at the apparition site, under the leadership of Fr. Peyramale.
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On February 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.
The Marian apparitions began on 11 February 1858 and ended on July 16 that year.
It received the local bishop's approval after a four-year inquiry.
Coming soon after the 1854 dogmatic definition of her Immaculate Conception, the Virgin Mary's appearances at Lourdes turned the town into a popular travel destination.
Thousands of people say their medical conditions have been cured through pilgrimage, prayer and the water flowing from a spring to which Bernadette was directed by the Blessed Virgin.
Experts have verified 69 cases of miraculous healing at Lourdes since 1862.
St. Bernadette also has her own liturgical memorial, which occurs February 18 in France and Canada then April 16 elsewhere.
Born in January 1844, the future visionary was the first child of her parents Francois and Louise, who both worked in a mill run by Francois.
Their family life was loving but difficult. Many of Bernadette's siblings died in childhood, and she developed asthma.
Economic hardship and an injury suffered by her father cost them the mill in 1854.
Years of poverty followed, during which Bernadette often had to live apart from her parents and work rather than attending school.
In January 1858, she returned to her family, whose members were living in a cramped single room.
Strongly committed to her faith, Bernadette made an effort to learn the Church's teachings despite her lack of formal education.
On 11 February 1858, Bernadette went to gather firewood with her sister and a friend.
As she approached a grotto near a river, she saw a light coming from a spot near a rosebush. The light surrounded a woman who wore a white dress and held a rosary.
Seeing the lady in white make the sign of the Cross, Bernadette knelt, took out her own rosary and began to pray.
When she finished praying, the woman motioned for her to approach. However, she remained still and the vision disappeared.
Her companions had seen nothing.
Bernadette described the lady in white to them, demanding they tell no one. But the secret came out later that day.
The next Sunday, Bernadette returned to the grotto, where she saw the woman again.
The identity of the apparition, however, would remain unknown for several weeks.
Some adults accompanied Bernadette on her third trip on February 18, though they did not see the vision she received.
The woman in white asked the girl to return for two weeks.
“She told me also,” Bernadette later wrote, “that she did not promise to make me happy in this world, but in the next.”
A group of family members and others went with her to the cave the next day, but only the young peasant girl saw the woman and heard her words.
Over the next few days, the number of people in attendance at the cave swelled to more than 100.
A parish priest, Father Peyramale, became concerned – as did the police.
On February 24, 250 people saw Bernadette break into tears, but only she heard the woman’s message:
“Penance! Penance! Penance! Pray to God for sinners. Go, kiss the ground for the conversion of sinners.”
A larger crowd was there on February 25 – but they were shocked to see Bernadette drinking from a muddy stream and eating weeds.
The apparition had told her to drink the water, and the weed-eating was a penitential act.
Onlookers, meanwhile, saw only the girl’s unusual behavior, and popular fascination turned to ridicule and suspicion.
On February 27, Bernadette made a joyful discovery:
The spring from which she drank was not muddy now but clear.
As the crowds continued to gather, this change was noticed, and a woman with a paralyzed arm came to the water hoping to be healed.
Four years later, her case would be recognized as the first miraculous healing at Lourdes.
Public interest continued, and Bernadette heard a recurring message from the vision:
“Go, tell the priests to bring people here in procession and have a chapel built here.”
While others were quick to conclude that Bernadette was seeing the Virgin Mary, the visionary herself did not claim to know the woman’s identity.
As she conveyed the repeated message to Father Peyramale, the priest grew frustrated and told Bernadette to ask the woman her name.
But when she did so, the woman smiled and remained silent.
Her identity remained a mystery after the initial two-week period.
Three weeks later, on the Feast of the Annunciation, Bernadette visited the cave again.
When she saw the lady, she kept asking to know her identity. Finally, the woman folded her hands, looked up and said:
“I am the Immaculate Conception.”
The seer, devout but uneducated, did not know what these words meant.
She related them to Father Peyramale, who was stunned and informed his bishop.
Bernadette saw the Blessed Virgin Mary two more times in 1858:
On the Wednesday after Easter and on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
In 1862, the local bishop declared the apparitions worthy of belief.
St. Bernadette left Lourdes in 1866 to join a religious order in central France, where she died after several years of illness in 1879.
By the time of her death, a basilica had been built and consecrated at the apparition site, under the leadership of Father Peyramale.
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Bernadette Soubirous (7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879), also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes.
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