Saint Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879) was the humble French girl to whom the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared eighteen times at Lourdes in 1858, identifying herself as the Immaculate Conception. She later became a Sister of Charity at Nevers, where she died; her body remains incorrupt.

April 16

• the sick
• shepherds
• Lourdes

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