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Espace Bernadette Soubirous Nevers is a former convent and the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers in Nevers, France, and is where the body of Saint Bernadette Soubirous is enshrined. In 1970, it was converted into a sanctuary run by volunteers and a few sisters who tend to pilgrims and manage the complex.
Bernadette Soubirous (/ ˌ b ɜːr n ə ˈ d ɛ t ˌ s uː b i ˈ r uː /; French: [bɛʁnadɛt subiʁu]; Occitan: Bernadeta Sobirós [beɾnaˈðetɔ suβiˈɾus]; 7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879), also known as Bernadette of Lourdes (in religion Sister Marie-Bernard), was a miller's daughter from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known ...
English: The Boly Mill was where St. Bernadette was born on 7th January 1844 and lived here happily for 10 years. Her parents, Louise and François, were the tenants of this mill. Her parents, Louise and François, were the tenants of this mill.
The sarcophagus of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes.. The Catholic convent is best known for Bernadette Soubirous, also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, a sister in the motherhouse at Nevers; [6] after having received her visions, Bernadette entered the convent in Lourdes run by the sisters, [7] who had opened a hospice in Lourdes in 1834. [8]
Marie-Thérèse Vauzou (August 10, 1825 – February 15, 1907) [1] was a French Catholic nun who is known as having been the Mistress of Novices and later Mother Superior of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers during Saint Bernadette Soubirous’ lifetime. [2]
Contemporary depiction of Our Lady's 9th apparition at Lourdes on 25 February 1858. Painting made by Virgilio Tojett in 1877 after Bernadette Soubirous' description. [1] The Lourdes apparitions are several Marian apparitions reported in 1858 by Bernadette Soubirous, the 14-year-old daughter of a miller, in the town of Lourdes in Southern France.
Gildard, or Gildardus, is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.He was a priest [3] in the seventh century of Lurcy-le-Bourg, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nevers. [1] His name was in the convent of St. Gildard, which has now become Espace Bernadette, operated by the a small number of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, and the final resting place of Bernadette Soubirous.
Abbé Dominique Peyramale (9 January 1811 – 8 September 1877) was a Catholic priest in the town of Lourdes in France during the apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to the peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. According to Bernadette, her visions occurred at the grotto of Massabielle, just outside Lourdes.