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 ...

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.

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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.

The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France has a connection to a Lourdes shrine in Ohio; 64 years after Our Lady first appeared to St. Bernadette, the National Shrine and Grotto of Our Lady of ...

Lourdes as a Shrine and miraculous place Today, around the grotto, a neo-Byzantine, three-level basilica was built. Underground is another basilica, which holds 7,000 people and has a ramp for ...

Bernadette de Lourdes openly depicts Bernadette’s mystic encounters with the Virgin Mary, beautifully depicting the famous grotto. The character of Bernadette reverently makes the Sign of the ...

The relics of the patron saint of a French town visited by millions of Catholics every year are to travel to the UK for the first time.

The grotto honors Marie Bernadette Soubirous, who had 18 encounters with the Virgin Mary in a mountain cave along the banks of the Gave River in Lourdes, France, in 1858.

The faithful also constructed a grotto behind the church, seeking to evoke the site in Lourdes, France, where a girl claimed to have 18 visits from the Virgin Mary in a cave in 1858.

The grotto at St. Joseph’s was, at least initially, itself an imitation, meant to replicate the famous Our Lady of Lourdes grotto in France, where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared.

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 ...