Christian feast day: Bernadette Soubirous (France)

Bernadette Soubirous

French Roman Catholic saint (1844–1879)

Bernadette Soubirous, SCN, also known as Bernadette of Lourdes, was a miller's daughter from Lourdes, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto.…