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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 ...
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.
In 1961 Daniéle Ajoret portrayed Bernadette in Bernadette of Lourdes (French title: Il suffit d'aimer or Love is Enough) of Robert Darène. [36] [37] The 1997 book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby features a scene in which he and his girlfriend, Josephine, go to see Our Lady of Lourdes, known in the book as the Madonna.
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.
The original Lourdes grotto where the Lourdes apparitions occurred and where Lourdes spring water still flows.. A Lourdes grotto is a replica of the grotto where the Lourdes apparitions occurred in 1858, in the town of Lourdes in France, now part of the sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes.
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To celebrate the elevation of the shrine of "their" saint, the Superior General of the Congregation sent a lock of St. Bernadette’s hair, a sleeping sock worn during the saint’s final years of suffering, [1] a replica of St. Bernadette’s writing book and many quality photographs which are displayed in the Bernadette Chapel at the Shrine ...