What is Bernadette Soubirous?
{{Infobox saint |name = Saint Bernadette Soubirous |birth_name=Bernadeta Sobiros |birth_date=7 January 1844 |death_date={{death date and age|1879|4|16|1844|1|7|df=y}} |feast_day=16 April<br>18 February (France, some traditionalist congregations) |venerated_in= [[Catholic Church]] |image=Bernadette Soubirous.jpg |caption=Saint Bernadette of Lourdes |birth_place=[[Lourdes]], Hautes-Pyrénées, [[July Monarchy|France]] |death_place=[[Nevers]], Nièvre, [[French Third Republic|France]] |beatified_date=14 June 1925 |beatified_place=Rome, |beatified_by=[[Pope Pius XI]] |canonized_date=8 December 1933 |canonized_place=Rome |canonized_by=[[Pope Pius XI]] |major_shrine= Convent of Saint Gilard ([[Espace Bernadette Soubirous Nevers]]), [[Nevers]] |attributes= |patronage= Bodily illness, [[Lourdes, France|Lourdes]], France, shepherds and shepherdesses, against poverty, people ridiculed for their faith |titles=Virgin, Consecrated Religious |suppressed_date= }} '''Bernadette Soubirous''' (7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879) was a young girl who had religious visions at [[Lourdes]], [[France]].<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.biographyonline.net/spiritual/bernadette-soubirious.html |title=Biography Bernadette Soubirous - Saint of Lourdes |work=biographyonline.net |access-date=17 November 2010 }}</ref> During 1858 she said she saw the [[Virgin Mary]] 18 times. The [[Roman Catholic Church]] later made her a [[saint]], and Lourdes has become one of the most visited places for [[pilgrim]]s. ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Soubirous, Bernadette}} [[Category:1844 births]] [[Category:1879 deaths]] [[Category:Christian saints]] [[Category:French Roman Catholics]] [[Category:Marian apparitions]] [[Category:People from Hautes-Pyrénées]] [[Category:Lourdes]] [[Category:19th-century French people]]