Saint Bernadette Soubirous - February 18 (France) Bernadette Soubirous (Occitan: Bernadeta Sobirós; 7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879) was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan …More
Saint Bernadette Soubirous - February 18 (France)
Bernadette Soubirous (Occitan: Bernadeta Sobirós; 7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879) was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), France, and is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Soubirous is best known for the Marian apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby garbage dump of the cave-grotto at Massabielle where apparitions are said to have 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 had undergone. These masks were placed on her face and hands before she was moved to her crystal reliquary in June 1925.[2] The Marian shrine at Lourdes (Midi-Pyrénées, France) went on to become a major pilgrimage site, attracting over five million pilgrims of all denominations each year.
On 8 December 1933, Pope Pius XI declared Bernadette Soubirous a Saint of the Catholic Church. Her feast-day was initially fixed for 18 February—the day her Lady promised to make her happy, not in this life, but in the next—but is now observed in most places on the date of her death, 16 April.
Bernadette Soubirous (Occitan: Bernadeta Sobirós; 7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879) was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), France, and is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Soubirous is best known for the Marian apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby garbage dump of the cave-grotto at Massabielle where apparitions are said to have 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 had undergone. These masks were placed on her face and hands before she was moved to her crystal reliquary in June 1925.[2] The Marian shrine at Lourdes (Midi-Pyrénées, France) went on to become a major pilgrimage site, attracting over five million pilgrims of all denominations each year.
On 8 December 1933, Pope Pius XI declared Bernadette Soubirous a Saint of the Catholic Church. Her feast-day was initially fixed for 18 February—the day her Lady promised to make her happy, not in this life, but in the next—but is now observed in most places on the date of her death, 16 April.
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Bernarda Soberana de Lorda, en castellano. Bernardita en íntimo cariñoso. La más humilde, una de las mayores santas que ha dado Francia, y no por ser una sabia doctora de la iglesia, ni por escribir maravillosamente sobre la fé, ni por ser la guerrera de Cristo y de Francia, ni una gran mística, ni por visiones profundas, ni por una santidad desbocada. Simplemente por su carácter.
La más frágil …More
Bernarda Soberana de Lorda, en castellano. Bernardita en íntimo cariñoso. La más humilde, una de las mayores santas que ha dado Francia, y no por ser una sabia doctora de la iglesia, ni por escribir maravillosamente sobre la fé, ni por ser la guerrera de Cristo y de Francia, ni una gran mística, ni por visiones profundas, ni por una santidad desbocada. Simplemente por su carácter.
La más frágil y humilde era, en lo tocante a la Virgen de su visión, la más dura roca.
Pequeña, enjuta, enfermiza, débil... Se mostró el más firme y temible adversario a la hora de defender a la "Señora" que se le apareció en una insignificante covacha, "Aqueró". Nadie pudo con ella. Y no fueron los prelados sino los humildes como ella quiénes estaban detrás de su poder.
Lourdes es hoy el principal centro de peregrinación de toda Europa, y todo salió del poder que la Santísima Virgen dió a la más humilde Santa del continente.
Menuda lección magistral nos da Bernadette Soubirous. Y sin ser doctora de la iglesia, cuánto ha curado y cuánto ha enseñado (la Virgen de por medio claro).
La más frágil y humilde era, en lo tocante a la Virgen de su visión, la más dura roca.
Pequeña, enjuta, enfermiza, débil... Se mostró el más firme y temible adversario a la hora de defender a la "Señora" que se le apareció en una insignificante covacha, "Aqueró". Nadie pudo con ella. Y no fueron los prelados sino los humildes como ella quiénes estaban detrás de su poder.
Lourdes es hoy el principal centro de peregrinación de toda Europa, y todo salió del poder que la Santísima Virgen dió a la más humilde Santa del continente.
Menuda lección magistral nos da Bernadette Soubirous. Y sin ser doctora de la iglesia, cuánto ha curado y cuánto ha enseñado (la Virgen de por medio claro).