Ten For Today: Bernadette
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It’s April 16, which is the Feast of St. Bernadette.
Bernadette Sobrious was a French teenager who claimed to be visited 18 times by an apparition that eventually claimed to be The Immaculate Conception (TIC). That’s the Virgin Mary of course. These visitations happened over several months in 1858, on the outskirts of Lourdes, France. Bernadette claimed…
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