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| Lourdes, France |
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| Lourdes, France |
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feast day: February 11
patron of: bodily ills
about:
- a Marian apparition in Lourdes, France
- 11 February 1858: first apparition of our "Lady" to a 14-year-old peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, in the cave of Massabielle while she was gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Similar apparitions of the alleged "Lady" were reported on seventeen occasions that year, until the climax revelation of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception took place. Bernadette Soubirous was later canonized as a Saint, and Roman Catholics and some Protestants believe her apparitions have been validated by the overwhelming popularity and testament of healings claimed to have taken place at the Lourdes water spring.
- shrine: Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, France
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NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF LOURDES
source: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/novena/lourdes.htm
Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child, St. Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception." A thousand times we congratulate you upon your Immaculate Conception. And now, O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of mercy, Health of the sick, Refuge of sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, you know our wants, our troubles, our sufferings deign to cast upon us a look of mercy.
By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, whence you dispense your favors, and already many have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and physical. We come, therefore, with the most unbounded confidence to implore your maternal intercession. Obtain for us, O loving Mother, the granting of our request.
(state your request)
Through gratitude for your favors, we will endeavor to imitate your virtues, that we may one day share your glory.
Our Lady of Lourdes, Mother of Christ, you had influence with your divine son while upon earth. You have the same influence now in Heaven. Pray for us; obtain for us from your Divine Son our special requests if it be the Divine Will. Amen.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Saint Bernadette, pray for us.
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links/ sources:
- "Our Lady of Lourdes" (source: Wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Lourdes
- "Lourdes Apparitions" (source: Wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_apparitions
- "Our Lady of Lourdes" (source: American Catholic):
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1288
- "Notre-Dame de Lourdes" (source: Catholic Encyclopedia):
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09389b.htm
- "Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes" (source: EWTN):
http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/novena/lourdes.htm
- "Lourdes: 150 Years of God's Healing Care" by Father John Lochran ("a priest who served as a former chaplain at Lourdes...") (source: American Catholic):
http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Feb2008/Feature1.asp
- "A little history of the apparition of Our Lady at Lourdes" by Linda O'Brien, FTI (posted February 10, 2007) (source: Catholic Exchange):
http://catholicexchange.com/a-little-history-of-the-apparition-of-our-lady-at-lourdes
- "The Song of Bernadette (film)" (source: Wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Bernadette_%28film%29
- "The Song of Bernadette 1 of 2" (old film) (source: YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGtUt7a8Rz0
- "Pope's resignation coincides with Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes" by Giorgio Bernardelli (posted 02/11/2013) (source: Vatican Insider):
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/world-news/detail/articolo/papa-el-papa-pope-22136/
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two days prior to Pope Benedict's resignation, i somehow searched for Pope Benedict's images/photos for some strange unknown reason and purpose...got surprised when he resigned as pope...
