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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 reposes. In 1970, it was converted into a sanctuary run by volunteers and a few sisters who administer to pilgrims and manage the building.
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, was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing ...
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]
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.
Little is known about her final years, but it is known Vauzou struggled internally with her feelings about Bernadette and went to visit a monk at the Fontfroide Abbey, who helped her regain spiritual peace following Bernadette's death. [6] When Vauzou died in 1907, investigations began in 1909 and Bernadette was officially canonized in 1933. [7]
Bernadette Soubirous, better known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, died in Nevers in 1879 (aged 35). Anne Boutiaut, born in Nevers in 1851 and later known as La Mère Poulard in Mont St-Michel; Michel Vieuchange, Saharan explorer, adventurer and writer, born in Nevers in 1904, where there is a street named after him
The sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes began with the Marian apparitions to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 in the town of Lourdes.On 11 February 1858, a 14-year-old peasant girl, called Bernadette Soubirous, said she saw a "lady" while playing near the grotto of Massabielle (from masse vieille: "old mass") with her sister and a friend, on the left bank of the Gave de Pau river. [1]
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.