French saint (1844–1879)
A miller's daughter who saw a young lady at a grotto eighteen times in 1858, and when the vision named herself "the Immaculate Conception," turned a cave in the Pyrenees into one of the world's busiest pilgrimage sites.
Bernadette Soubirous was born 7 January 1844 in Lourdes, a town in the Hautes-Pyrénées. Between 11 February and 16 July 1858, she reported apparitions of a figure who asked for a chapel at a nearby cave-grotto and identified herself as the Immaculate Conception. A canonical investigation declared her account "worthy of belief" on 18 February 1862, and the site became the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, now drawing five million pilgrims a year. In 1866 she joined the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, taking the religious name Marie-Bernarde, and lived out her years at their convent. She died 16 A…
Sourced, dated quotes from Bernadette Soubirous
I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them. Why must we suffer?
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