On Feb. 11, 1858, 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous went with her sister and a friend to collect firewood by the Gave de Pau river near their hometown of Lourdes in the south of France. Two of the ...

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 ...

Preparations for Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Lourdes are in full swing. Registration has been capped to ensure adequate services ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Virgin Mary’s first apparition to Bernadette Soubirous was commemorated at Lourdes chapel in Għajnsielem on February 11, which was also the World Day of the Sick. Gozo Bishop Anton Teuma, joined ...

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 ...