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Bernadette Soubirous, photographed around 1858-1860.Image: culture · Europe
Bernadette Soubirous reports a vision at Lourdes
On 11 February 1858 Bernadette Soubirous, the 14-year-old daughter of a poor family in Lourdes in the French Pyrenees, went to gather firewood by the river and said she saw a young lady dressed in white in the grotto of Massabielle. It was the first of eighteen visions she reported that year. The Church approved devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes in 1862, and the grotto became one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in the world.
Source: Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes: the apparitions ↗
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