Marie Bernarde Soubirous: A Brief Biography

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 she saw someone. It was a woman. The woman seemed to invite Bernadette to pray so she pulled out her rosary. After praying the rosary with her the woman disappeared. She told her friends what she saw and they told her mother. Bernadette's mother didn’t believe this and banished her from going back to the river. Ignoring her mother’s rules she went back multiple times and even gained an audience. The audience did not believe her. They thought she was completely insane. On February 25 Bernadette saw the Lady again. This time the Lady talked to her. She said, “Go and drink the water in the …show more content…
She joined the Notre-Dame de Nevers. Her health then began to drop. She now had tuberculosis of the bones along with her severe asthma. She died on April 16, 1879 at the age of thirty-five. She was canonized in 1933. Her feast day is the day she died, April 16. She is the patron saint of illness. I chose Bernadette as my saint because I admire the way she continued to listen to and visit the Lady even though everyone thought she was crazy. I also admire how she didn’t let her illness get in the way of living a religious life. I hope I can be like her in the way she never stopped believing in what she wanted to even with others pressuring her to give up. I honor the way she showed the Holy Spirit in her life. Bernadette continuously showed her love for God, Jesus and Mary. When she became a nun she devoted her life to working with the Holy Spirit guiding