The Salvific Message of Lourdes
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On February 11, the Catholic Church commemorates the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes to the young Bernardita Soubirous in 1858, the origin of one of the most important Marian devotions in the world.
The Salvific Message of Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes is one of the few visions of the Virgin Mary to be placed in the public Liturgical calendar of the universal Church, along with her appearances at Fatima and Guadalupe. All three have in common that the visionaries to whom Our Lady manifested herself were simple, unlettered peasants, the anawim, the ‘poor of the Earth’, humble, expecting not much from life, faithful to the Church, pious and morally pure – and all of them went…
Every February 11, the Catholic Church commemorates the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in France, an event that transformed contemporary spirituality and health.
The latest exhibition on Bernadette Soubirous at the Shrine of Lourdes reveals rare objects and unpublished archives. Among them, eight letters and personal effects of the saint.
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