Aside from the 70 cases that have passed rigorous scientific scrutiny, and the thousands of reported healings, Our Lady of Lourdes has continued to bring grac.
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.
The village of Lourdes in the Pyrenees of southern France was the site of a miraculous series of visions in 1858. Beginning on February 11, at the nearby