The town of Lourdes is associated with Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, born in 1844 and canonized in 1933. Her feast day is April 16 and she is the patron saint of bodily illness. She is known for …
Lourdes is a village in France where Our Blessed Mother appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. Her messages to Bernadette are ageless and apply to all of us today. Bernadette Soubirous was born on January 7, 1844.
The Church of Notre Dame (New York City) is an affiliated Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. It is dedicated to her veneration and Lourdes waters are available to pilgrims at the New York church, with the 1910 interior constructed as a faithful, large-scale replica of the Grotto.
The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes commemorates the first of 18 appearances of the Virgin Mary to a 14-year-old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous. The young girl's visions occurred between February 11 and July 16, 1858, near the town of Lourdes. The Virgin led her to a nearby grotto, and the …
INTRODUCTION TO LOURDES. In 1858 in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes, France, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a 14 year old peasant girl.
God comes to tell us that he loves us, – this is the heart of the Message of Our Lady of Lourdes, and he loves us as we are with all our successes but also with all our wounds, our weaknesses and our limitations.
The grotto where the actual apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes took place. The Church of St. Bernadette was built across the grotto where St. Bernadette stood on the final and 18th apparition. There are multiple places of worship inside.
Our Lady of Lourdes On 11 February 1858, St Bernadette, at the age of 14 first had a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was out with her sister and a friend collecting firewood at Massabielle, near her home town of Lourdes in the South of France.
This French town is the most famous healing shrine in the world and one of the most-visited of all pilgrimage sites. When a young servant girl named Bernadette Soubirous claimed to see a radiant vision of a woman in white on February 11, 1858, Lourdes was a small market town virtually unknown to the larger world.
Church service at the Basilica of Saint Pius X / Underground Basilica at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, Pyrenees, France Grotto de Massabielle the cave in which the spring producing the Lourdes water rises, and where services are regularly held.