In Lourdes, France, in 1844 a baby girl named Bernadette Soubirous was born. Bernadette’s family was very poor, and Bernadette was responsible for looking after and caring for her brothers and ...

Amen. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. Saint Bernadette, pray for us. Day One O Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, virgin and mother, queen of heaven, chosen from all eternity to be the Mother ...

Irish Catholics are devoted to St Bernadette, with generations of women named for her. Now a pilgrimage of her relics nears ...

The relics will arrive in Cork on Wednesday, October 30th before moving to West Cork on October 31st and the Diocese says ...

St Bernadette witnessed 18 apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes in 1858, with a shrine at the site now attracting huge numbers of pilgrims every year. People will be able to venerate the relics at ...

It was there that Bernadette heard a sound “like a gust of wind” and is said to have seen the Virgin Mary. Seventeen further ...

A candlelight procession snaked its way around the grounds of the historical Holy Cross Abbey in Tipperary, the long queue ...

Our Lady is said to have appeared 18 times ... the Virgin Mary is said to have stood during the apparition to St Bernadette at Lourdes in 1858. Three stain glassed windows in the grotto also ...

The relics of St Bernadette will help to remind us of Lourdes as a place of prayer and compassion ... a Mass with the Anointing of the Sick, and a special Mass of Our Lady of Lourdes. “May the graces ...

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Mary feels the relics are a great way for parishioners to show their love for St Bernadette. “It’s such a lovely story of Lourdes. I’ve been to the place where Bernadette lived with her ...