The first of 18 apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to 14-year-old St. Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, happened on this day in history, Feb. 11, 1858.

In Lourdes, France, in 1844 a baby girl named Bernadette Soubirous was born. Bernadette’s family was very poor, and Bernadette was responsible for looking after and caring for her brothers and ...

St. Bernadette Soubirous is understandably considered the most beautiful incorrupt saint of the Catholic Church. Her scientifically inexplicably well preserved body was not embalmed, ...

Bernadette Soubirous, a poor miller’s daughter, could neither read nor write when she went to gather firewood by a hill called Massabielle just outside town.

Feb. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history:In 1858, French peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous said the Virgin Mary appeared to her at Lourdes. In December 1933, the pope proclaimed Bernadette a saint.

A rock called Massabielle towers over the Gave de Pau River near Lourdes, France. At 27 meters tall, it has a 4-meter grotto at its base and a niche in the rock above it to the right. On Feb. 11, 1858 ...

On Feb. 11, 1858, a “lady in white” began her 18 visits to a poor, uneducated 14-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubirous, in the obscure town of Lourdes in southern France — population 4,100 ...

The relics of St. Bernadette Soubirous, on an exhibit tour in the United States since April, will be displayed from July 12-14 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, ...

Inspired by the official transcripts from St. Bernadette Soubirous’ interrogations by French authorities, the musical Bernadette of Lourdes tells the real story of an ordinary girl who saw ...