Our Lady of Lourdes in France.

Saint Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (7 January 1844 -- 16 April 1879) was a miller's daughter born in Lourdes, France and is venerated as a Christian mystic and Saint in the Catholic Church. Soubirous is best known for her Marian apparitions of "a small young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at a cave-grotto in Massabielle where the apparitions occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858. She would later receive recognition when the lady who appeared to her identified herself as the Immaculate Conception. Despite initial skepticism from the Catholic Church, Soubirous's claims were eventually declared "worthy of belief" after a canonical investigation, and the Marian apparition is now known as Our Lady of Lourdes. Since her death, Soubirous's body has apparently remained internally incorrupt, but it is not without blemish; during her third exhumation in 1925, the firm of Pierre Imans made light wax coverings for her face and her hands due to the discoloration that her skin has undergone. These masks were placed on her face and hands before she was moved to her crystal reliquary in June 1925. The Marian shrine at Nevers (Bourgogne, France) went on to become a major pilgrimage site, attracting over five million Christian pilgrims of all denominations each year. On 8 December 1933, she was canonized as a saint by Pope Pius XI in the Catholic Church; while her Feast Day is observed on April 16. She is considered a Christian mystic...... On 11 th February 1858, at 11 h in the morning, Bernadette went with her younger sister Antoinette and her friend Jeanne Abadie to Massabielle for gathering some wood there. Outside the "Cachot" was the thick, humid fog which was so typical for Lourdes. Later, Bernadette described herself in front of the pope: "I heard a noise similar to a gust. I raised my eyes to the grotto and saw a lady, clad all in white. She wore a white dress, a veil which was also white, a blue girdle and a yellow rose on each foot." This was the beginning of the visions and the unique mission of Bernadette. Lourdes became a place of pilgrimage, known in the whole world. During the time from 11 th February till 16 th July 1858 happened the 18 apparitions. The most time, Mary just prayed together with Bernadette or let herself be looked at. Other times she spoke to her, gave her orders, but above all she passed her the message and the religious signification for Lourdes. more videos at    / Канал