Marie Bernarde Bernadette Soubirous (Occitan: Bernadeta Sobiróus; 7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879) was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes France and is venerated as a Christian mystic and Saint in the Catholic Church.Soubirous is best known for her participation in the Marian apparitions of a small young lady who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby garbage dump of cave-grotto within Massabielle where apparitions are said to have occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858.
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