Bernadette of Lourdes

/ ˌbɜːnəˈdɛt /

noun

1. Saint . original name Marie Bernarde Soubirous . 1844–79, French peasant girl born in Lourdes, whose visions of the Virgin Mary led to the establishment of Lourdes as a centre of pilgrimage, esp for the sick or crippled. Feast day: Feb 18

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"This is the first time and probably the only time the relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes will visit us," he said.

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Although some scenarios — the 19th century case of Bernadette of Lourdes is the most famous — are legitimized, others are denied.

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Comparisons have gone so far as to compare the girl to Bernadette of Lourdes.

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Cauchon was the countryman, almost the pays—an untranslatable expression,—of Jeanne; but he did not believe in her any more than the loftier ecclesiastics of France believed in Bernadette of Lourdes, who was of the spiritual lineage of Jeanne, nor than we should believe to-day in a similar pretender.

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The little Bernadette of Lourdes is almost of our own day; she, too is one who puts the scorner to silence.

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