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St Bernadette Soubirous
The girl who saw the Lady at Lourdes.
Patron of The sick, the poor, shepherds · 1844–1879
Life
A poor and sickly fourteen-year-old shepherdess to whom the Virgin Mary appeared eighteen times in a grotto at Lourdes in 1858. The Lady identified herself as the Immaculate Conception. The healing spring Bernadette uncovered still flows.
Prayer
St Bernadette, pray that we may have the simple heart that recognises holiness when it appears in poor places.