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Bernadette was born in Lourdes, France into a very poor family and suffered poor health during her life. One day while out gathering firewood, a very beautiful Lady dressed in blue and white appeared to her above a rose bush. She smiled at Bernadette and then made the sign of the cross with a rosary of ivory and gold. Bernadette fell on her knees, took out her own rosary and began to pray the rosary. The beautiful Lady was God's Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
During Bernadette’s life, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to her seventeen other times and spoke with her. She told Bernadette that she should pray for sinners, do penance and have a chapel built there in her honour. Many people did not believe Bernadette when she spoke of her vision. But one day Our Lady told Bernadette to dig in the mud, and as she did, a spring of water began to flow, from which many miracles happened when people used the water.
Bernadette became a nun, but died on April 16, 1879, when she was only thirty-five. |
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