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St. Bernadette

Bernadette Soubirous was the eldest child and grew up without any wealth in southern France. Bernadette, who was a small, delicate child suffered from asthma all her life. To help her get proper care her parents sent her off while she was very young to be a nurse in a neighboring village. When older, she had was placed in charge of a flock of sheep and served as a shepard. Early in 1858, at the age of fourteen, she returned to her family’s home. She had had no schooling and had not yet received her First Communion, but she had already impressed others with her love of prayer, her innocence, and her hatred of sin.

18Marian Apparitions at Lourdes

On Thursday, February 11, 1858, she was sent by her mother, together with her younger sister and a companion, to gather for their fire pieces of wood that had floated down the river and had drifted upon the shore just under the Grotto of Massabielle. The two other girls had crossed the little stream, and Bernadette was removing her stockings to follow them when she heard a sound as of a rushing wind. Looking up to the Grotto she noticed that while the leaves of other trees were motionless, the wild rose-tree in the niche shaking unnaturally.

Instantly, around the niche, an oval ring of brilliant light appeared, and within the niche she saw a Lady of unspeakable beauty, dressed in white with a light blue girdle. She smiled, as if to encourage the child to approach, made a large sign of the cross upon herself with the cross of the Rosary she held, and began to pass the beads through her fingers. Bernadette fell on her knees, took out her Rosary and made a big sign of the cross as the Lady had done, and together recited the rosary with the Blessed Mother

Our Lady appeared on seventeen other occasions entered into conversation with Bernadette. On February 18th she said: I promise to make you happy, if not in this world, at least in the next. Pray for poor sinners” Feb 21st), “Penance! Penance!” (Feb. 24th.) “Go and tell the Priests that a chapel should be built here” (Feb. 27th “I am the Immaculate Conception” (March 25th).

Persecution from Others

Bernadette suffered much from the opposition of her family, the civil authorities and even the clergy, who refused to believe her regarding the apparitions until the month of October 1858. The Bishop of Tarbes appointed a Commission of ecclesiastes and medical men with extensive training and theological studies to inquire into the reality and nature of the apparitions and miracles that had occurred at Lourdes The commission investigated the apparitions for nearly three years.

Before the report of the Commission was approved by the Bishop, the fame of Lourdes had spread through Christendom, and the place of pilgrimage was firmly established. Bernadette made her First Communion before the last apparition, on June 3, Feast of Corpus Christi, and she commenced to go to school, and continued to do so for some years. In 1860 the Sisters of Charity, who had charge of the Hospice at Lourdes, offered her a place in their convent, where she performed light duties.

In July, 1866. Bernadette left for Nevers to commence her novitiate at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Nevers. There she remained until her death. “Every day”, she said, “I go in spirit to the dear Grotto, and make my pilgrimage there.” Before entering the convent she had had the consolation of witnessing the installation of the statue of the Blessed Virgin and the blessing of the crypt at the site of the apparations.

On September 22, 1878. she made her perpetual vows, and in December of that year she had to appear before the representatives of the Bishops of Tarbes and Nevers, and renew the deppositions she had made twenty years before regarding the apparitions at the Grotto. She was frequently humiliated and at times persecuted by her superiors, but she suffered all courageously. She always defended the truth of the apparitions.

The asthma, her life-long cross, recurred with frequent crises; a large tumor formed on her knee, and her bones grew exceeding fragile. It was on April 16, 1878, Wednesday in Easter week, that Bernadette’s long martyrdom came to an end as she prayed: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for me, poor sinner”. She was canonized by Pope Pius XI on December 8, 1933.

St. Bernadette Necklace

From the hallowed little Grotto in Southern France, faith and devotion to St. Bernadette have come into the hearts of Catholics everywhere in the world. Wearing a St. Bernadette pendent serves as a beautiful testament of faith against all persecutions and a source of spiritual intercession and hope for those who suffer from asthma

St. Bernadette Rosary
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