The tour includes stops at St. Bernadette Parish in Appleton June 12-13, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in De Pere June 14 and the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion June 15-16.

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.

Queues of parishioners gathered outside St Mary’s Church on Chapel Lane in Belfast to see the relics of St Bernadette as they arrived in the city for the first time.

This paternity of St. Joseph in Bernadette’s life, explained Doze, would never become more evident than at the moment of her death in 1879. For several months preceding, she had suffered ...

Overwhelmed by the attention she fled to the convent of St Gildard at Nevers where she died in her 30s. Since the appearances of Mary to young Bernadette in 1858, more than 200 million people have ...

A study conducted in 2012 estimated that the town of Nevers would stand to lose 170,000 visitors and €2.5 million in revenue if Saint Bernadette’s remains were to be transferred to Lourdes.

Irish Catholics are devoted to St Bernadette, with generations of women named for her. Now a pilgrimage of her relics nears its end, having arrived in Cork before moving on to Clonakilty ...

The first of 18 apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to 14-year-old St. Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, happened on this day in history, Feb. 11, 1858.

A French girl who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in a cave at Lourdes 75 years ago was proclaimed a saint today and henceforth will be revered among the immortals of the Roman Catholic church.

The relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes will arrive in Cork next week for two days of veneration by members of the public. The relics are in Ireland on a two-month pilgrimage, taking in every ...

During the two-month visit, the relics were taken to Ireland’s own Marian shrine in Knock, where hundreds of pilgrims attended Masses in the church on the site of the apparition of Mary in 1879 ...