COMMENTARY: After the Blessed Mother appeared to her in 1858, the French peasant girl sought simple religious life 400 miles ...

The first of 18 apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to 14-year-old St. Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, happened on this day in history, Feb. 11, 1858.

In 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes in southern France, Our Lady appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl. She revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception ...

a 14-year-old girl who experienced mystical encounters with the Virgin Mary in the grotto of Massabielle. In that grotto, Bernadette saw a lady dressed in white who later identified herself as the ...

It was built in 1923 by Brother Déodat-Antoine, as a miniature replica of the famous grotto and Basilica of Massabielle at Lourdes, in France. On Monday, a private service of "thanksgiving" was ...