What is significant about the church architecturally is the replica of the grotto where the Heavenly Mother appeared to St. Bernadette in Lourdes, France in 1858.

Advertisement The grotto is the site where 14-year-old St. Bernadette Soubirous reported 18 visions of Mary in 1858. Mary called for prayer and penance, and requested a chapel be built at the site.

The first of 18 apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to 14-year-old St. Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, happened on this day in history, Feb. 11, 1858.

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.

Carfin Lourdes Grotto was created in the early twentieth century and was the brainchild of Father, later Canon Thomas N. Taylor, parish priest of St. Francis Xavier's Parish in the small, mining ...

The grotto is a replica of the shrine at Lourdes, France, according to a 1945 souvenir program recounting the history of St. Joseph’s Hospital. The Omaha grotto as it looked in 2005.

Explore Tarnov’s St. Michael’s Church, a historic boarding school, and a museum filled with surprising stories—including a ...

After a visit to the French shrine in 1932, Msgr. Pasquale Lombardo, the founder of St. Lucy’s, planned to build the grotto on the church grounds, at Bronxwood and Mace Aves.

Built in 1896, the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes is one-seventh the size of the shrine in France where the Blessed Mother appeared to St. Bernadette numerous times in 1858.