Birhen sa lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes is a venerated title of the +Blessed Virgin Mary invoked by +Roman Catholics in honor of the +Marian apparitionssaid to have occurred on numerous occasions in 1858 in the vicinity of
Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman
Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in honor of the Marian
apparitions in 1858 in the vicinity of Lourdes, France. The first of these is
the apparition of 11 February 1858, when Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old
peasant girl, admitted to her mother that a "lady" spoke to her in
the cave of Massabielle (a mile from the town) while she was gathering firewood
with her sister and a friend. Similar apparitions of the alleged
"Lady" were reported on seventeen occasions that year, until the
climax revelation of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception took place.
Bernadette Soubirous was later
canonized as a saint, and Roman Catholics and some Protestants believe her
apparitions have been validated by the overwhelming popularity and testament of
healings claimed to have taken place at the Lourdes water spring.