Celebration of her feast is optional in the roman calendar, though lourdes is a major pilgrimage center for those seeking healing. Bernadette believed it was faith and prayer that was responsible for curing the sick Bernadette asked the local priest to build a chapel at the site of her visions and the sanctuary of our lady of lourdes is now one of the major catholic pilgrimage sites in the world. I shall spend every moment loving One who loves does not notice her trials Or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them
I shall do everything for heaven, my true home Saint bernadette soubirous was born in 1844, the first child of an impoverished miller in lourdes, france Her family resided in the basement of a decrepit building when, on february 11, 1858, the blessed virgin mary appeared to bernadette in a cave by the gave river. Saint bernadette soubirous was a poor, uneducated peasant girl who no one would believe had seen apparitions of the blessed mother But mary had appeared to her, and lourdes has become a popular shrine of devotion to mary, the immaculate conception, and of healing. She is, therefore, a saint of modern times, and the remarkable facts of her life are readily accessible to all.
She alone saw the lady and all depends on her testimony 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 towards the grotto.
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