Saint
Saint Bernadette Soubirous
- Country / origin
- France
- Life
- 1844 – 1879
- Feast
- 16 April
- Canonised
- 1933
Awaiting theological review
Who was this?
A poor, sickly girl of Lourdes to whom Mary appeared in 1858. She later became a Sister of Charity in Nevers.
Patron of
- the sick
- the poor
- Lourdes
When to ask for intercession
- in illness
- when we feel small and unimportant
A short prayer
Saint Bernadette, intercede for me, that I may trust God in poverty and in illness.
Written for Lumen as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
What we know — and how
Private revelation
The apparitions of Lourdes are private revelation recognised by the Church; Bernadette was canonised for her holiness, not for having seen the apparitions (CCC 67).
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