Bernadette Essay

Bernadette was still in very poor health but that didn't stop her. She was trying her best to keep up with the other girls. Bernadette came across a stream that she had to cross to get to the other side where her sister and friend were waiting. Bernadette decided to take off her shoes and her socks to cross as she began a strong gust of wind came. Bernadettes life changed as in that moment she saw a Beautiful Lady in White with a Blue Sash with golden roses on each side of her. The mysterious lady was above a rosebush in a grotto, a small cave called the Massabielle, the Massabille would soon become the most famous place in lourdes. The radiant woman was making the sign of the cross with a gold rosary smiling down at bernadette. St bernadette …show more content…
The apparition told her to drink from a stream though there was a stream to which Bernadette drank from. Bernadette tried three times to drink this water the first time the water was dirty and third time the water was clear, Bernadette also ate the plants. She turned to face the crowd, they didn't see a stream and assumes she was a fraud. The next few days the hole that Bernadette dug began to spout water and within a few days a full stream began to form. Many people went the stream and began drinking it and washing themselves in it, it is beleives to have healing properties. Later on the catholic church got over their scepticism and went to investigate it. Bernadette didn't like the attention she was getting so she went to a hospice school called the sisters of charity of nevers. Saint Bernadette died April 16, 1879 at age 35 by tuberculosis, she was canonized a saint on december 8, 1933 by Pope Pius XI. Saint bernadette is the patron saint of illness. Her body is incorruptible meaning it did not decompose after her death, it lays in the chapel of St. Gildard nevers. Bernadette was a devoted catholic and gave her whole life to teaching the miracles of