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Bernadette Soubirous

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Bernadette Soubirous
had a vision in a grotto of the Blessed Virgin. [Ger. Lit.: The Song of Bernadette; Magill I, 903]


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His appearance coincides with the 150th anniversary celebrations at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, in the southwestern French town, of what Catholics believe were apparitions of the Virgin Mary to French peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous.
ae When Bernadette Soubirous was sent out to forage for firewood on a chilly February morning, she noticed something moving in a rocky hollow, or grotto, into which cattle often strayed.
Most visitors will leave with a trinket from the shops that conspicuously line streets leading to the shrine where peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous is said to have seen the Madonna 18 times in 1858.
 
 
 
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