{"id":3970,"date":"2008-02-11T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T09:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:31:28","slug":"today-is-the-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3970","title":{"rendered":"Today is the 150th anniversary of first apparition at Lourdes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage girl, Bernadette Soubirous, had the first of her 18 apparitions on February 11th 1858. The appearances were in a grotto near the town of Lourdes, in southern France.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=126,height=161,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/02\/11\/bern_color.gif\"><\/a> <a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=126,height=161,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/02\/11\/bern_color_2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bern_color_2\" height=\"159\" alt=\"Bern_color_2\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/images\/2008\/02\/11\/bern_color_2.gif\" width=\"125\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last apparition was on March 25th, when the lady&nbsp; said &quot;I am the Immaculate Conception.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Of course Bernadette is now St. Bernadette in the Catholic Church. (Today Lourdes is a place of pilgrimage [six million people visit every year] and miraculous cures.*)<\/p>\n<p>And the strangeness continued, even after Bernadette&#8217;s death in 1879. Her body has never corrupted, although she was buried for 31 years before being exhumed as her cause for canonization proceeded. Here&#8217;s that part of the story and pictures &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicpilgrims.com\/lourdes\/ba_bernadette_intro.htm\"><strong>Saint Bernadette<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a photo from 1997 &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=445,height=318,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/02\/11\/bern97a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bern97a\" height=\"89\" alt=\"Bern97a\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/images\/2008\/02\/11\/bern97a.jpg\" width=\"125\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>* Go here for a discussion of one Lourdes miracle <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/News24\/World\/News\/0,,2-10-1462_1834134,00.html\"><strong>Lourdes &#8216;miracle&#8217; is official: World: News: News24<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a skeptic about the whole thing, and want reinforcement of your skepticism, go here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/world\/story\/0,,1744941,00.html\"><strong>Lourdes miracles get a little easier | World | The Observer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage girl, Bernadette Soubirous, had the first of her 18 apparitions on February 11th 1858. The appearances were in a grotto near the town of Lourdes, in southern France.&nbsp; The last apparition was on March 25th, when the lady&nbsp; said &quot;I am the Immaculate Conception.&quot; Of course Bernadette is now St. Bernadette in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9323,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/9323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}