Optional Memorial
Our Lady of Lourdes
- Feast day
- February 11
Life
This memorial commemorates the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to fourteen-year-old Bernadette Soubirous at the grotto of Massabielle near Lourdes, France, in 1858, where Mary identified herself as the Immaculate Conception. Lourdes has since become one of the world's most visited pilgrimage sites and a place of healing, and the day is also observed as the World Day of the Sick.
The saint of the day, every day
Bosko shows you the saint the Church honors today, every day — their story, today's feast, and where they fall in your tradition's liturgical calendar, so a feast that matters to you never quietly slips past.