The Apparitions and Bernadette Soubirous (Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes)
The account of the eighteen apparitions of 1858 and of the life of Bernadette Soubirous published by the sanctuary at Lourdes. It quotes her words but is the sanctuary’s summary, written long afterwards.
Read the text at lourdes-france.com ↗Bernadette Soubirous (the sanctuary’s page on her life) ↗
The first page lists the apparitions day by day from 11 February to 16 July 1858, with words attributed to Bernadette. Under 25 March it gives, as she recounted them, the words in which the lady named herself, Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou, with the English “I am the Immaculate Conception”. The second page gives the dates of Bernadette’s life: her birth on 7 January 1844, her years with the Sisters of Nevers, her death on 16 April 1879 and her canonization on 8 December 1933.
These pages are a modern summary by the institution that keeps the shrine. The wiki uses them for the wording and date of the saying of 25 March and for the plain dates of her life. See the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
Cited in
- 8 December 1854, firm date