[NYer]

OUR LADY OF LOURDES

Our Lady appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a young poor and sick girl in the grotto of Masabielle, close to Lourdes in France in 1858.

She asked for a chapel to be built in the site of the apparitions and when asked who she was, She replied : " I am the Immaculate Conception "

Our Lady asked Bernadette to wash her face at the fountain but there was no fountain there, so Bernadette dug a hole in the ground, and with muddy water washed her face while people ridiculed her, however from there sprang the famous fountain of water that has healing attributes. Many sick people have bathed themselves in that water and there have been at least 64 reported miraculous healings.

Millions of people from all over the world go to Lourdes yearly in the hope of obtaining help from the generous Mother of God.

Bernadette became a nun, she died when she was 35 and her body is still incorrupt.

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The feast of Our Lady of Lourdes is February 11, which is also the birthday of Sarah Palin!

[NYer]

Bernadette became a nun, she died when she was 35 and her body is still incorrupt.

St. Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879)

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

I noticed her birthday, too. Good idea.

[okokie]

Maybe Our Lady of Lourdes will use Sarah Palin to help heal our country from the sin of abortion.

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[RobbyS]

I have read that the lady as first described by Bernardette did not look like the imagae we know, but had the form of a young, noble girl. She was badgered into saying that it looked like a traditional image of the Virgin.

[fortunecookie]

Thank you for posting this! My mother had a particular devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes, a devotion she shared with me. I’m thrilled that Pope Benedict has chosen a pilgrimage to Lourdes.