Every year on February 11, the Catholic world marks the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, commemorating the first apparition of the Virgin Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 at the Grotto of ...

In 1858, Our Lady appeared more than a dozen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a humble 14-year-old girl from a poor family in ...

On this day, 168 years ago, at Lourdes, France, “the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, a poor/uneducated/physically frail young girl whose family lived on the margins of society ...

“Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou.” I am the Immaculate Conception. In 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary spoke these hallowed words to Bernadette Soubirous, a teenager of 14 years old. Uneducated and ...

The sculpture of Our Lady of Lourdes located in the grotto at Lourdes, France, was created by Joseph-Hugues Fabisch, a French sculptor known for his religious works. It was commissioned by the Bishop ...

FILE - Pope Benedict XVI, center, celebrates a Mass in front of the Basilica of the Rosary in Lourdes, southwestern France, on Sept. 15, 2008. Behind him is one of the mosaics by Rev. Marko Ivan ...

The closed Basilica of Lourdes is pictured May 8, 2020, in Lourdes, southwestern France. The Vatican came under pressure Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, to explain why it didn’t prosecute a famous Jesuit ...