Bernadette Soubirous

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 1 of 1 - About 7 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Saint Bernadette was born into a poor family. When Bernadette was 14 years old, Bernadette and two of her friends went to get firewood because it was the winter and they needed to light a fire. They decided to get wood at Massabielle, a dump, and they had to go through a cold stream. Bernadette couldn’t go through the water because she had a cold. While Bernadette's two friends went through the water Bernadette was visited by a beautiful lady. The beautiful lady said she was the immaculate conception and Bernadette didn’t know what that meant. Saint Bernadette told her mother about this and she didn’t believe her. Eventually, after bernadette visited the lady multiple times, a crowd would form and watch her talk to the Lady. Once the government saw this, they told her that she could never go again and she kept going. Saint bernadette was mocked for visiting this person. Finally on the 18 visit, there was a large crowd. The lady told her to dig in a spot. In that spot a stream was formed out of the water. Later in her life she visited a priest and they figured out the lady was Mary. St. Bernadette showed courage at a very young age. I show courage in my daily life. I show courage in my family by being able to speak up when I need to. For example, if someone in my family gets falsely accused…

    • 864 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My boyfriend Brant is no cow, so it’s very easy to push him over. Brant’s “pushover” ways are because of his lose/win paradigm. There are many paradigms of interactions and everybody has displayed them all before, but Brant loves to practice the lose/win paradigm the most. A lose/win paradigm is an interaction where Brant loses in his favor while the other person gets their way and wins. Whether he is interacting with me, his teachers, his friends or even his own sister, a lot of the time he…

    • 1136 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Way to Christ “The rainy forenoon darkened “the dungeon” of the old prison, the last refuge of the Soubirous, who had been turned away from everywhere else” (Laurentin, 17). Fourteen year old Bernadette Soubirous was living in a disused jail with her parents and her five siblings. The family was destitute, living off of the wood that they gathered and using it to buy their daily bread. Bernadette’s father, Francois Soubirous, was out of work, out of time, and out of profit. The Soubirous lived…

    • 1450 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Saint Bernadette Soubirous, born Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, was born on January 7, 1844 in Lourdes, France, to Louise and François Soubirious. She died at the young age of 35, on April 16, 2014 in Nevers, France; this date is also her feast day which is typical; for many of the saint’s feast days. St. Bernadette was beautified on June 14, 1925 and canonized eight years later on December 6, 1933. Each step in the process to saint hood was performed by Pope Pius XI. Also, the year of 2009 was…

    • 1307 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Marie Bernarde Soubirous was born on January 7, 1844 in Lourdes, France.Even though she was born as Marie Bernarde, everyone called her Bernadette. She was the eldest of six children. Her family was very poor and she suffered from asthma. Everyone thought of her as mentally challenged. This made it hard for her to prove herself to everyone. On February 11, 1858 Bernadette , along with her friends, went to go get firewood. To get firewood she had to cross a small river. Before she was to cross…

    • 493 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    priest to construct a chapel at the site of her apparition. She warned them of the sufferings that they would face as a way of amends for the repentance of sinners. The local authorities and church leaders tried to discredit the children’s story but news had spread and thousands of people had gathered with the children at Cova de Iria, hoping to witness the apparition of the Lady Mary. Bernadette Soubirous was 14 when she first experienced the visions of the lady, the lady asked Bernadette to…

    • 624 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    France Research Paper

    • 1580 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Brittany during the turn of the century. Anti-Semitism in France was symbolized by the Dreyfus Affair which began 1894 when a young Jewish army officer was convicted of spying and imprisioned. He was later exionerated and his officer status was restored. Reaction across the nation divided the republican and anti-republican. During the Middle Age, France was the site of many pilgrimages. On holy days most regions have historic churches that are visited regularly, with processions leading to…

    • 1580 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Previous
    Page 1
    Next