Lourdes appears around a bend in the road as a small French village out of time. Nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains in the Bordeaux region, it is a quiet, pastoral little town that ...

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 ...

Pierre Ferragu considered it providential when he met the production team behind the powerful French musical Bernadette de Lourdes, which is currently gearing up for a U.S. tour in 2025 — and will ...

When Pope Benedict XVI visits this small town in the foothills of the French Pyrenees next weekend, he will follow in the footsteps of millions of pilgrims who have come before him. Like them, he will ...

(WLUK) -- Relics of St. Bernadette are leaving France for the first time and are making stops in Northeast Wisconsin. The Catholic Church says the Virgin Mary appeared to 14-year-old Bernadette ...

A fiery dispute has erupted between two French towns over the remains of Bernadette Soubirous, better known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, AFP reports. While her visions of the Virgin Mary made ...

VATICAN CITY -- A French girl who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in a cave at Lourdes 75 years ago was proclaimed a saint today and henceforth will be revered among the immortals of the Roman ...

Over the next two months relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes will be taken on pilgrimage – for the first time – to each of the 26 Catholic dioceses on the island of Ireland. Catholics believe that in ...

Large crowds attended the Cathedral of St Mary & Saint Anne in Cork as they waited patiently to touch the glass cover containing the relics of Saint Bernadette, to whom Our Lady is believed to have ...

The relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes will arrive in Cork next week for two days of veneration by members of the public. The relics are in Ireland on a two-month pilgrimage, taking in every diocese ...

THOUSANDS OF IRISH Catholics make a pilgrimage to Lourdes each year to visit the site where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to a peasant girl. Now, thousands are flocking to churches around ...

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