Bernadette Soubirous
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Bernadette Soubirous, also known as Bernadette of Lourdes, was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto. These apparitions occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858, and the woman who appeared to her identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception".
The Chapel of St Joseph, where Bernadette Soubirous was interred for forty years.
Full-body relic of Bernadette Soubirous. The photograph was taken at the last exhumation (18 April 1925). The saint died 46 years before the photo was taken; face and hands are covered with a wax coat.
The gold sarcophagus/reliquary containing the incorrupt body of Saint Bernadette Soubirous.
Christian pilgrimage
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Christianity has a strong tradition of pilgrimages, both to sites relevant to the New Testament narrative and to sites associated with later saints or miracles.
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
A typical street in Canterbury with the cathedral in the background.