Also known as St. Bernadette of Lourdes, she was a well-known Christian mystic and visionary, whose visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 paved the way for the worldwide devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes. | ManilaBulletin READ:
Marian devotees and pilgrims traditionally visit the Chapel of St. Bernadette in Nevers, France, where she died on April 16, 1879 at the age of 35, and where her incorrupt body lies. The Marian shrine is visited annually by more than 5 million pilgrims and tourists.
When she was 14 years old, St. Bernadette had visions of the Blessed Mother at least 16 times from Feb. 11 until July 16, 1858, at the Cave of Massabielle in Lourdes, France. Dressed in white with a blue belt, a rosary in her hands, and two golden roses at her feet, Our Lady, who later introduced herself as the Immaculate Conception, asked St. Bernadette to pray the holy rosary for the conversion of sinners, to build a chapel at the apparition site, and to drink from a spring of miraculous water.
After a canonical investigation, the apparitions were declared as “worthy of belief” by the Vatican on February 18, 1962. St. Bernadette was canonized by Pope Pius XI on Dec. 8, 1933. She is widely venerated as the patron saint of body illnesses.
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