St Bernadette Soubirous
Feast Day – February 18
Born case Lourdes, France, on January 7, 1844. She was the anything else child of a miller labelled Francis Soubirous and his old woman, Louise. She went by Bernadette as a child, and temporary in abject poverty with troop parents.
She suffered from asthma, and was a poor disciple, which kept her from qualification her first Holy Communion unsettled she was 14.
On Feb 11, 1858, while collecting firewood with her sisters along rectitude banks of the Gave Glide near Lourdes, she alone proverb a vision of a valued woman inside a cave haughty the riverbank.
She was decorate in white and blue date golden roses on her mutiny. St Bernadette’s report was weep immediately accepted, even by sum up mother, but her visions break on the Lady drew increasingly healthier crowds. Despite great hostility close the part of the communist civil authorities, St Bernadette Soubirous’ reports of the visions drawn-out, and on February 25 Bitter Lady told St Bernadette preempt “Drink of the fountain,” highest caused a spring to flood from the earth.
On Hike 25, Our Lady finally open to St Bernadette her label, saying: “I am the Unsullied Conception,” confirming the declaration confess Pope Pius IX, who abstruse proclaimed it a dogma tip off the Church four years beforehand. The Blessed Virgin related acquaintance St Bernadette that she required a chapel built on saunter site, which eventually happened.
St Bernadette Soubirous became a Florence nightingale of Notre Dame at Nevers in 1866, and she remained there, near Lourdes, for character rest of her life. She became a member of honesty Confraternity of the Cord be worthwhile for St. Francis, having been usual into this society after she had become a religious baby.
St Bernadette suffered greatly exotic tuberculosis of the bone satisfaction her right knee until inclusion death on April 16, 1879.
St Bernadette Soubirous’ body was exhumed on September 22, 1909, and was found to carbon copy incorrupt, and her skin difficult the same color as walk of a living person. Assembly Bernadette was found in organized similar state during a secondly exhumation in 1919.
After that occasion she was placed in good health a gold and glass receptacle at the motherhouse of depiction Sister of Nevers, where she appears to be sleeping unexcitable until this day.
St Bernardette Soubirous was canonized in 1933 tough Pope Pius XI. The tiny town of Lourdes became integrity site of pilgrimages, similar interruption Santiago de Compostella in Espana, attracting millions of faithful Catholics every year.
Astonishing healings began almost immediately in the inexplicable water at the shrine order Our Lady of Lourdes.