On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, recalling a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14-year-old French peasant girl, ...

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 ...

These lesser-known apparitions of Gietrzwald in Poland have striking echoes of Our Lady's visits to Lourdes and Fatima. Fatima and Lourdes are household names when it comes to approved apparitions of ...

Our Lady of Lourdes was the first Marian apparition I ever learned of, largely because St. Bernadette was my favorite of the excellent CCC saint movies I watched as a child. I admit I mostly focused ...

In 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes in southern France, Our Lady appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl. She revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception, ...

Mass is celebrated in the grotto at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France in this 2008 file photo. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) (Jan. 4, 2011) See LOURDES-REPAIRS Jan. 4, 2011. Some 6 million ...

May 13 is the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady at Cova da Iria to three shepherd children in the small village of Fatima in Portugal in 1917. Between May 13 and Oct. 13 of that year, she is ...