Bernadette Soubirous

French saint (1844–1879)

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Lived 1844–1879, aged 35France

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#156
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Era
1844–1879
Aged 35

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Updated 2026-05-29

A miller's daughter from 1858 France who claimed to see visions of a young lady in a cave grotto. The apparitions at Lourdes made Bernadette Soubirous a cornerstone of Catholic pilgrimage culture and one of history's most scrutinized witnesses to the supernatural.

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Bernadette Soubirous, SCN, also known as Bernadette of Lourdes, was a miller's daughter from Lourdes, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto. These apparitions occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858, and the young lady who appeared to her identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception".

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