What happened when the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette?

Answer 1

The Blessed Virgin Mary said many things to Bernadette at Lourdes. Our Lady told Bernadette to do penance saying, "Penance," three times, and told her to pray for sinners. She also told Bernadette that she could "not promise happiness in this world, but in the next," speaking of heaven. Throughout the apparittions Bernadette asked for the apparition's name, but was refused. At the end of the visions, Our Lady unfolded her hands and spread them to her side and said, 'I am the Immaculate Conception." This confermed the Church's new teaching that Mary was concieved without original sin. She also told Bernadette things that were for herself alone, and she never told them to anyone.

Answer 2

Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old peasant girl from Lourdes told her mother that she had seen a 'lady' in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from Lourdes, while she was gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Similar appearances of the lady were reported on seventeen further occasions that year, and many Christians believe the sightings to have been of Mary, mother of Jesus.

A statue of the Virgin Mary was erected in the cave, but Bernadette insists that the statue looks nothing like the lady she saw, who was a much shorter and different woman. Lourdes is now a site for Catholic pilgrimage, renowned for its cures. It receives over 80,000 pilgrims a year. Approximately 7000 people have sought to have cures confirmed as miracles, but only 68 of these have been declared as scientifically inexplicable by both the Lourdes Medical Bureau and the Catholic Church. This number is so small as to suggest that these cases were likely to have been cured or gone into remission anyway.

Answer 3

Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old peasant girl from Lourdes told her mother that she had seen a 'lady' in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from Lourdes, while she was gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Similar appearances of the lady were reported on seventeen further occasions that year, and many Christians believe the sightings to have been of Mary, mother of Jesus.

A statue of the Virgin Mary was erected in the cave, but Bernadette insists that the statue looks nothing like the lady she saw, who was a much shorter and different woman. Lourdes is now a site for Catholic pilgrimage, renowned for its cures. It receives over 80,000 pilgrims a year. Approximately 7000 people have sought to have cures confirmed as miracles, but only 68 of these have been declared as scientifically inexplicable by both the Lourdes Medical Bureau and the Catholic Church. This number is so small as to suggest that these cases were likely to have been cured or gone into remission anyway.

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Answer 4

Mary appeared to Bernadette in 1858 at Lourdes, France.

Answer 5

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