OUR LADY OF LOURDES, ST.BERNADETTE SOUBIROUS

THE SEVENTH APPEARANCE

• On the 7th appearance Lady instructed Bernadette to ask the priests to build a
• chapel by the grotto for people to process there, and this is at the heart of Lourdes
• Today. At the conclusion of the appearance of the vision witch lasted an hour
• She fell down on her knees and started kissing the ground in happiness.

THE FIFTH APPEARANCE

• On her fifth visit, the beautiful Lady taught Bernadette a prayer witch she
• recited daily for the rest of her life. She never reveled the prayer to
• anyone, but she did say the she was to always bring a blessing candle
• with her.

THE FIRST APPEARANCE

• After dinner Thursday the day after Ash Wednesday Bernadette's mom said
• To go and gather wood with her sister, while they were gathering wood,
• Bernadette had heard a great rumbling noise and there was a slight opening about the grotto
• A woman dressed in blue and had incomparable beauty appeared.
• Bernadette was amazed, she wasn't afraid she had a sense of love and peace

THE EIGHTEENTH APPEARANCE

• Bernadette seemed reviled that she was was becoming
• Of a public figure. Bernadette joined the sisters of charity
• To give back to the community.