What is the story of Lourdes?

Answer 1

.AnswerThe story of Lourdes is yet another story of the love of a Mother for her children. The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette, a young girl in Lourdes, France and told her to drink of the water. There was no water there, Bernadette dug in the ground and the spring which appeared now provides a great flow of water, at which many people, over the years, have been healed. As of now, nearly 7,000 of them have been healed physically, and many more spiritually. Bernadette entered a convent, and to this day, her body is preserved incorrupt in a glass coffin. For more information, see the links below.from the website Our Catholic Faith: 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, asked that a chapel be built on the site of the vision, and told the girl to drink from a fountain in the grotto.

No fountain was to be seen, but when Bernadette dug at a spot designated by the apparition, a spring began to flow. The water from this still flowing spring has shown remarkable healing power, though it contains no curative property that science can identify.

Lourdes has become the most famous modern shrine of Our Lady.

Read the whole story of the Miracles at Lourdes and about St. Bernadette

Answer 2

Lourdes is the place where, in 1858, a young girl, Bernadette Soubirous, supposedly saw apparitions of the Virgin Mary in a grotto. Although she was sometimes accompanied by others when she saw these apparitions, only Bernadette was able to see the visions she described. Bernadette called the young woman in her visions aquero - "that one" - and it was only when others told her she had seen the Virgin Mary that Bernadette realised that she had indeed done so. The local clergy ridiculed her claims but then, as pilgrims began to arrive, accepted them as true. The Catholic Church soon saw the commercial possibilities of these apparitions and aggressively marketed Lourdes as a place of pilgrimage.
At first, there was no suggestion that miracle cures could be expected at Lourdes, but people of medieval and early modern times expected that wherever Mary's apparition was seen, one could expect the possibility of cures.
Lourdes is now renowned for its miracle cures. It receives over 80,000 pilgrims a year, of whom approximately 7000 people in more than a century have sought to have cures confirmed as miracles. Only 68 of these have been declared as scientifically inexplicable by both the Lourdes Medical Bureau and the Catholic Church, a number so small as to suggest that these cases were likely to have been cured or gone into remission anyway.
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Answer 3

Catholic Answer

The story of Lourdes is yet another story of the love of a Mother for her children. The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette, a young girl in Lourdes, France and told her to drink of the water. There was no water there, Bernadette dug in the ground and the spring which appeared now provides a great flow of water, at which many people, over the years, have been healed. As of now, nearly 7,000 of them have been healed physically, and many more spiritually. Bernadette entered a convent, and to this day, her body is preserved incorrupt in a glass coffin.

For more information, see the links below. from the website Our Catholic Faith:
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, asked that a chapel be built on the site of the vision, and told the girl to drink from a fountain in the grotto.

No fountain was to be seen, but when Bernadette dug at a spot designated by the apparition, a spring began to flow. The water from this still flowing spring has shown remarkable healing power, though it contains no curative property that science can identify.

Lourdes has become the most famous modern shrine of Our Lady.

Read the whole story of the Miracles at Lourdes and about St. Bernadette

http://www.ourcatholicfaith.org/lourdes/lourdes.html