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

Worshippers hold candles May 12, 2022, at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal. (OSV News photo/Pedro Nunes, Reuters) Next week, the Vatican is set to publish a new set of guidelines on ...

The shrine at Lourdes, France, where the Virgin Mary is venerated as 'Our Lady of Lourdes,' following several apparitions reported in 1858. LandFoto/iStock / Getty Images Plus The Vatican recently ...

On Dec. 8, the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) will screen The Message of Lourdes. The network’s latest film is based upon the life of St. Bernadette and the 1858 Marian apparitions at Lourdes ...

When Our Lady appears, so does biblical symbolism connected to her and her messages for us. I have often wondered about certain aspects in Our Lady’s apparitions. For instance, why did she appear at ...

Lourdes devint un haut de pèlerinage dès la moitié du XIXe siècle... Ce grâce aux visions d’une jeune fille de 14 ans. Le même jour en 1858, une jeune fille de 14 ans nommée Bernadette Soubirous ...

Vicenzo Battaglia, president of the International Pontifical Marian Academy, explained this week that the 23rd Congress the academy will host in Lourdes for the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of ...

Exactly 150 years ago this month, the Virgin Mary began appearing to a poor peasant girl in a small village called Lourdes in France. The Virgin identified herself as the Immaculate Conception — an ...

(RNS) — Every Sunday, in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, a group of followers of Veronica Lueken, a Catholic housewife who said she saw visions of Mary starting in 1968, gather around a ...

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Ce dimanche, une statue de Bernadette Soubirous, la jeune femme qui a vu la Vierge, est apparue sur le parking d’un magasin de Châteauroux ...