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Saint Bernadette
Title: Saint Bernadette
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 512 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Saint Bernadette
Saint Bernadette
Marie Bernarde (also called Bernadette) Soubirous was born in Lourdes, France on January 7, 1884. She grew up in poverty. Her father was a miller. She was the oldest of six children. As a child she worked as a shepard in the country away from her family. It was good for Bernadette because the air was fresh and the food was plentiful. At the age of 14 she returned to her parents. She made her first …showed first 75 words of 512 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 512 total…severe case of asthma. Bernadette’s body lies incorrupt in the chapel of the convent of Saint-Gildard at Nevers, and that this convent is open to the public.
Bernadette was beautified on June 2, 1925. Her
canonization was on December 8, 1933. Saint Bernadette is the patroness of shepards, illness, Lourdes, France, people ridiculed for their poverty, sick people, and sickness. Saint Bernadette’s feast day is April 16.
Today millions of people pray to the humble Saint Bernadette.
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