A fiery dispute has erupted between two French towns over the remains of Bernadette Soubirous, better known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, AFP reports. While her visions of the Virgin Mary made ...
In the heart of France’s Bourgogne region, the town of Nevers — rhymes with “the stair” — is not likely to come up on your travel agent’s radar. There are no significant museums to speak of. The ...
On February 11th, Ignatius Press will host a nationwide re-release of the classic film, The Passion of Bernadette, which is based on the later life of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a young girl, to whom ...
On Feb. 11, 1858, 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous went with her sister and a friend to collect firewood by the Gave de Pau river near their hometown of Lourdes in the south of France. Two of the ...
In 1858, a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous made an astonishing claim — she had been visited multiple times by the Virgin Mary. More than a century later, Bernadette has been canonized a saint ...