Our Lady of Lourdes

Our Lady of Lourdes is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary recalling her apparitions in 1858 in the grotto at Lourdes, France to Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl. Our Lady instructed Bernadette to dig in the ground nearby, from which came a spring with healing properties which are active to this day.

Our Lady of Lourdes is the patroness of the sick, because of the miraculous healing spring which St. Bernadette uncovered at Lourdes. Annually, millions of pilgrims travel to Lourdes. The parish patronal feast day is on February 11.