Catholic Saint
St. Bernadette Soubirous
“A poor French girl who received 18 apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the grotto of Lourdes.”
Feast Day: April 16
Biography
St. Bernadette Soubirous was a sickly, impoverished girl from Lourdes, France, who in 1858 experienced 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the grotto of Massabielle. The spring she uncovered during the apparitions became a site of miraculous healings. She later became a nun and lived a hidden life of prayer and suffering.
Prayer to St. Bernadette Soubirous
I do not promise to make you happy in this life, but in the next.