In Lourdes, France, in 1844 a baby girl named Bernadette Soubirous was born.  Bernadette’s family was very poor, and Bernadette was responsible for looking after and caring for her brothers ...

ABOUT 200 years ago, in a remote corner of France, in a rented stone-and-wood house that could be reached from the street by a narrow, cobbled, winding road, lived a grain miller, François Soubirous.

AN INTERNATIONAL doctors’ panel appointed by the Catholic Church says it is getting out of the “miracle” business at Lourdes.

But modern medicine has made the miracles Lourdes is famous for ever rarer. Between 1907 and 1913, 33 healings were declared miraculous. Another 22 were declared between 1946 and 1965.

Miracles in France are not, apparently, what they were. Or not according to the critics of a new initiative in Lourdes, the famous centre of Christian pilgrimage in the mountains of south-west ...

In Lourdes, where villager Bernadette Soubirous said she had visions of Mary while gathering stones back in the 19th century, ... miracles at Lourdes. AP. SAINT-LARY-SOULAN, France (AP) ...

During the second apparition at Lourdes on Feb. 14, Bernadette was still unsure of who the Lady was and whether she was good, so she sprinkled holy water at her. Our Lady smiled and Bernadette ...

LOURDES, France — Nearly 150 years after Bernadette Soubirous saw a “beautiful Lady” here, people are still being cured at Lourdes. Feb. 11 is the feast day o... A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

Over the last 160 years, bishops from the Catholic church have recognized 70 medical miracles connected to The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France. Each year, more than 3 million ...

THE LOURDES MIRACLES AGAIN. Share full article. Jan. 13, 1881. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 13, 1881, Page 4 Buy Reprints.