Dates

• Existence: 1844 January 7 - 1879 April 16

Biographical note

Born at Lourdes, Bernadette Soubirous was the daughter of a miller. When she was fourteen years of age, she witnessed a series of apparitions of Mary, revealing the healing shrine at Lourdes. In 1866, she joined the Institute of the Sisters of Notre Dame at Nevers. Canonized in 1933.

(paraphrased from The Book of Saints : A Dictionary of Persons Canonized or Beatified by the Catholic Church. 5th edition. New York: Crowell, 1966.)

Alternate names

Bernardetta Bernada, Bernardette of Lourdes, Marie-Bernarde Soubirous