The first of 18 apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to St. Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, happened on this day in history, Feb. 11, 1858. Soubirous, then a sickly 14-year-old peasant girl ...

‘There were two important periods in Bernadette’s life,’ says André Doze. ‘The phase of Lourdes, which was mostly under the sign of Mary, and the phase of Nevers, under the sign of Joseph.’ The ...

Friday marks the 20th anniversary of the reported apparition of the Blessed Virgin and St. Bernadette on a remote hillside in West Sligo. In this special feature, LEO GRAY recalls the extraordinary ...

LOURDES, France -- When Pope Benedict XVI visited this small town in the foothills of the French Pyrenees last week, he followed in the footsteps of millions of pilgrims who came before him. Like them ...

Worshippers hold candles May 12, 2022, at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal. (OSV News photo/Pedro Nunes, Reuters) Next week, the Vatican is set to publish a new set of guidelines on ...

On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, recalling a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14-year-old French peasant girl, ...

Hundreds of people have visited the relics of St Bernadette following its arrival in Belfast as part of a pilgrimage across the island of Ireland. Large queues snaked around St Mary’s Church on Chapel ...

The relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes will arrive in Cork next week for two days of veneration by members of the public. The relics are in Ireland on a two-month pilgrimage, taking in every diocese ...