This Friday we celebrate the Feast of St. Bernadette Soubirous. She was the humble, peasant girl, on whom was bestowed one of the greatest of earthly blessings…to be visited and spoken to by Our Blessed Mother, Mary. It is a remarkable story that sadly, even many Catholics, are not familiar with.
Perhaps no other appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary has captured people’s hearts and imaginations like those she made to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France in 1858. Our Lady appeared eighteen times that year to an impoverished, uneducated fourteen-year-old girl who lived with her family in an old jail. Since that time, more than five thousand healings are reported to have taken place in the spot where the Blessed Mother appeared; sixty-four of them the Catholic Church has proclaimed “miraculous.” Read the rest…
Everything about the young girl named Bernadette Soubirous spoke of humility. If anyone had told her struggling parents how widely her name would become known, they never would have believed it. Yet it was this simple, virtually uneducated girl who had been chosen to receive the highest of privileges.
Bishop Jacques Benoit-Gonin of the Diocese of Beauvais in France has announced the official recognition of the 70th miracles that took place in Lourdes which involved the miraculous healing of a paralyzed nun.
Through the grace of God, we recently completed our first Women of Grace® Pilgrimage and I must tell you it was a beautiful and blessed time in the Lord! As a matter of fact, we have made the pilgrimage available to you through my Facebook page. So if you are a “friend” on my personal page, I invite you to go on it and watch the videos. If you scroll all the way down to the first video, either from March 6th or 7th, you can watch all the videos in succession and through our final day on March 13 in Lourdes, France. Read the rest…
After days of nonstop rains caused flash floods in the French pilgrimage town of Lourdes, the receding waters are revealing serious damage to the precious sanctuaries.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
More than 30,000 pilgrims were evacuated from the Sanctuary of Lourdes on Sunday after French police received a warning that four bombs had been planted at the site.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A 50 year-old Italian woman afflicted with a fatal nerve disease claims that she has been able to ditch her wheelchair and walk ever since bathing in the healing waters at Lourdes earlier this month.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
As Catholics around the world celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and the World Day of the Sick, Pope Benedict XVI said the most profound sickness a person can suffer is the absence of God.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The international doctor’s panel that gives aid to the Church in judging whether pilgrims to Lourdes have received miraculous healings has decided not to continue its involvement in assessing miracles at the world’s most popular Marian shrine.
