St. Bernadette Soubirous

Bernadette Soubirous was born in Lourdes, France in 1844. Her parents were very poor and Bernadette was a sickly child, suffering from asthma. When she was fourteen years old, Bernadette had a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a river bank in Lourdes. Soon after that a spring bubbled out of the cave near the spot and its waters were discovered to be miraculous, healing the sick and lame. The Blessed Virgin appeared several times to Bernadette and asked her to have a Church built at that place. This has now become a famous pilgrimage site, visited by millions of people annually. Sacred art and stained glass images often depict St Bernadette at the cave and source of the stream where the apparitions occurred. Bernadette spent the latter years of her life in the community of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Nevers where she died in 1879 at the age of thirty-five. There are more than fifty Catholic churches named after St. Bernadette in the USA. Her Feast Day is April 16th, and she is the Patroness of Lourdes, bodily illnesses, shepherds and shepherdesses. Would you like to have a stained glass window of St.Bernadette in your church or home? If so, we would be glad to help you. Please contact us for more details.