St. Bernadette of Lourdes is a French saint whose visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858 led to the founding of the Marian shrine of Lourdes, a major pilgrimage center for those seeking healing.

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Discover More About St. Bernadette with Journey with the Saints St. Bernadette was born in Lourdes, France on . Her parents were very poor and she was the first of nine children. She was baptized at St. Pierre's, the local parish church, on January 9. As a toddler, Bernadette ...

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Early Life Bernadette Soubirous was born in 1844, the first child of an extremely poor miller in the town of Lourdes in southern France. The family was living in the basement of a dilapidated building when on , the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette in a cave above the banks of the Gave River near Lourdes.