Bernadette believed it was faith and prayer that was responsible for curing the sick. Bernadette asked the local priest to build a chapel at the site of her visions and the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes is now one of the major Catholic pilgrimage sites in the world.
Saint Bernadette Soubirous was a poor, uneducated peasant girl who no one would believe had seen apparitions of the Blessed Mother. But Mary had appeared to her, and Lourdes has become a popular shrine of devotion to Mary, the Immaculate Conception, and of healing.
Bernadette Soubirous, a girl from France encounters Our Lady, Mary, out of obedience digs a spring by a grotto; the waters from this spring help thousands throughout generations with the healing they need.
In 1990, Fernando Uribe and Steven Hahn directed a short animated film, Bernadette: La Princesa de Lourdes, produced by John Williams and Jorge Gonzalez, available in English since 1991 with the title Bernadette – The Princess of Lourdes.
St. Bernadette of Lourdes is a French saint whose visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858 led to the founding of the Marian shrine of Lourdes, a major pilgrimage center for those seeking healing.
St. Bernadette of Lourdes | Biography, Miracles, Patron Saint Of, Facts ...
Saint Bernadette Soubirous was born in 1844, the first child of an impoverished miller in Lourdes, France. Her family resided in the basement of a decrepit building when, on , the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette in a cave by the Gave River.
The apparition was manifest to Bernadette for the third time on Thursday, February 18, when she went to the grotto accompanied by two women of Lourdes who thought the "damiezelo," as Bernadette called her, was the returning spirit of a young woman, one of their dear friends, who had died a few months before.