She has had many sicknesses and diseases through out her life. Including digestive problems, painful attacks of asthma, tuberculosis of the lungs, a tumor on her right knee and being a surviving victim of the cholera epidemic of 1855.
The most remembered story of St. Bernadette was when Mary told her to dig a hole in the ground where she stood. Bernadette did as she was told and water began to spout out and it got bigger every day. People began to come and drink the water and after drinking it many were healed.