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 and ...
in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child, St. Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception." A thousand times we congratulate you upon your Immaculate Conception. And now, O ever Immaculate ...
A statue of the Lady of Lourdes was erected in 1864 after the Catholic Church officially ... in prayer at the altar in the grotto shrine of St Bernadette at Lourdes, in 1958.
The sacrament of anointing of the sick is often associated with hospitals or those on their deathbeds. But the Order of Malta ...