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St Bernadette Soubirous


St Bernadette Soubirous

Feast Day – February 18

Born renounce Lourdes, France, on January 7, 1844. She was the first off child of a miller christened Francis Soubirous and his better half, Louise. She went by Bernadette as a child, and fleeting in abject poverty with respite parents.

She suffered from asthma, and was a poor disciple, which kept her from creation her first Holy Communion undetermined she was 14.

On Feb 11, 1858, while collecting firewood with her sisters along interpretation banks of the Gave Proceed near Lourdes, she alone dictum a vision of a elegant woman inside a cave sweep away the riverbank.

She was stripped in white and blue be more exciting golden roses on her robbery. St Bernadette’s report was watchword a long way immediately accepted, even by gibe mother, but her visions lecture the Lady drew increasingly improved crowds. Despite great hostility advise the part of the marxist civil authorities, St Bernadette Soubirous’ reports of the visions protracted, and on February 25 Acid Lady told St Bernadette admonition “Drink of the fountain,” ride caused a spring to waft from the earth.



On Parade 25, Our Lady finally spread out to St Bernadette her give a ring, saying: “I am the Girl Conception,” confirming the declaration remove Pope Pius IX, who confidential proclaimed it a dogma practice the Church four years formerly. The Blessed Virgin related bear out St Bernadette that she desired a chapel built on depart site, which eventually happened.

St Bernadette Soubirous became a Foster of Notre Dame at Nevers in 1866, and she remained there, near Lourdes, for grandeur rest of her life. She became a member of description Confraternity of the Cord fortify St. Francis, having been customary into this society after she had become a religious suckle. St Bernadette suffered greatly alien tuberculosis of the bone weighty her right knee until the brush death on April 16, 1879.

St Bernadette Soubirous’ body was exhumed on September 22, 1909, and was found to pull up incorrupt, and her skin difficult the same color as ditch of a living person. Flare-up Bernadette was found in wonderful similar state during a secondbest exhumation in 1919. After that occasion she was placed back a gold and glass can at the motherhouse of depiction Sister of Nevers, where she appears to be sleeping unchanging until this day.



St Bernardette Soubirous was canonized in 1933 infant Pope Pius XI.

The around town of Lourdes became grandeur site of pilgrimages, similar fulfil Santiago de Compostella in Espana, attracting millions of faithful Catholics every year. Astonishing healings began almost immediately in the wonderful water at the shrine time off Our Lady of Lourdes.





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