Our depiction of the Virgin's appearance to St. Bernadette is true in all its details to the historical accounts of this Marian apparition.The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a young poor and sick girl in the grotto of Masabielle, close to Lourdes in France in 1858. She asked for a chapel to be built in the site of the apparitions and when asked who she was, She replied : " I am the Immaculate Conception."
Our Lady asked Bernadette to wash her face at the fountain but there was no fountain there, so Bernadette dug a hole in the ground, and with muddy water washed
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