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 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 ...

In 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes in southern France, Our Lady appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl. She revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception, ...

The shrine at Lourdes, France, where the Virgin Mary is venerated as 'Our Lady of Lourdes,' following several apparitions reported in 1858. LandFoto/iStock / Getty Images Plus The Vatican recently ...

Our Lady of Lourdes was the first Marian apparition I ever learned of, largely because St. Bernadette was my favorite of the excellent CCC saint movies I watched as a child. I admit I mostly focused ...

The last apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes will be celebrated at the Lourdes chapel in Mġarr on Friday. Masses will be said at 5.15am, 9, 1pm, 3.30pm and 6pm. An hour of prayer, led by the Italian ...

Our Lady’s first apparition to Bernadette Soubirous will be celebrated at Lourdes chapel in Għajnsielem on Tuesday, February 11. On the days commemorating the apparitions, masses will be said at the ...

The rector of the Lourdes shrine remembers the "solidity of the theologian, the seriousness of the historian, the agility of the journalist," but also the "fervour of the believer, witness of the ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The dogma of the Immaculate Conception was proclaimed by Pope Pius IX in 1850. Four years later in the small French town of Lourdes, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to ...