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as a saint , saint Bernadette saw are virgin mother Mary 18 times. and when she died her body never rotted away and her body can still be seen in a certain church.
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As a young girl in 1858, Bernadette Soubirous supposedly saw apparitions of the Virgin Mary near Lourdes. Interestingly, when pious witnesses followed Bernadette when she returned to see Mary, they saw nothing but Bernadette said that she did see the vision once again. 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. With forceful marketing it became a place of pilgrimage for those hoping for a cure.

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Approximately 7000 people in more than a century have sought to have cures confirmed as miracles. In that time, only 68 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. However, the real achievement is to create a centre for pilgrimage and tourism, receiving over 80,000 pilgrims a year, and their spending and donations provide a continuing revenue stream for the Church.

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