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Feb 11, About Today for Monday of the 5th week of Ordinary Time
February 11 Our Lady of Lourdes Optional Memorial Today we remember the first apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes to little Bernadette Soubirous, in 1858. This 14-year-old girl, afraid of following her...
View ArticleA Sign of Contradiction: At Lourdes, the Sick Are the Church’s ‘Treasure’
By JOAN FRAWLEY DESMOND | LOURDES, France — Charlotte Kiesel just completed her 27th pilgrimage to Lourdes — the Marian shrine in France where the Virgin Mary first appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in...
View ArticleFeast of the Blessed Sacrament: Bernadette Soubirous’ 1st Communion
By Monsignor Jacques Perrier, bishop emeritus of Lourdes Bernadette Soubirous did not make her First Communion on Sunday, June 22, but on June 3. In 1858, the year of the Apparitions, June 3 was...
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