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Our Lady of Lourdes with Crown carved wood Coptic Church Supplies; In Lourdes, at the foot of the Pyrenees, in a grotto on the bank of the river Gave, Our Lady appeared to a simple, delicate, sickly young woman, daughter of a very poor family. On February 11, 1858, Bernadette Soubirous was shown a very beautiful """"lady"""" dressed in white, before whom the girl, not knowing what to do, began to pray the Rosary. The Virgin showed herself 17 more times until July 16. In February, the famous spring of water gushed out, which did not exist before. On March 25, the woman presented herself as the Immaculate Conception: the proclamation of the dogma dated back four years earlier. Penance and prayer: according to the visionary, this is the heart of Our Lady's message.
Roman Martyrology: Blessed Virgin Mary of Lourdes, who, four years after the proclamation of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin, the humble maiden Saint Bernadette Soubirous had seen several times in the grotto of Massabielle in the Pyrenean mountains on the banks of the Gave near the town of Lourdes, where countless crowds of the faithful flock with devotion.