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

Worshippers hold candles May 12, 2022, at the Marian shrine of Fatima in central Portugal. (OSV News photo/Pedro Nunes, Reuters) Next week, the Vatican is set to publish a new set of guidelines on ...

These lesser-known apparitions of Gietrzwald in Poland have striking echoes of Our Lady's visits to Lourdes and Fatima. Fatima and Lourdes are household names when it comes to approved apparitions of ...

On Dec. 8, the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) will screen The Message of Lourdes. The network’s latest film is based upon the life of St. Bernadette and the 1858 Marian apparitions at Lourdes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shrine at Lourdes, France, where the Virgin Mary is venerated as 'Our Lady of Lourdes,' following several apparitions reported ...

On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, recalling a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14-year-old French peasant girl, ...

When Pope Benedict XVI visits this small town in the foothills of the French Pyrenees next weekend, he will follow in the footsteps of millions of pilgrims who have come before him. Like them, he will ...

“For those who have faith, no explanation is necessary. For those without faith, no explanation is sufficient.” Those were the opening lines of the 1943 Academy Award-winning “Song of Bernadette,” a ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - December 8, will mark the beginning of Celebrations for 150th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes. This jubilee year 2008, the third ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office has announced that Benedict XVI will make an apostolic trip to France from 12 to 15 September, for the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the ...

LOURDES, France -- When Pope Benedict XVI visited this small town in the foothills of the French Pyrenees last week, he followed in the footsteps of millions of pilgrims who came before him. Like them ...