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St. Bernadette of Lourdes (1844-1879),
was an illiterate young girl born in a very poor and virtuous family in
France. At age fourteen, she received sixteen visions of a lady
dressed in white with a blue sash and a yellow rose on each foot, later
identified by the Church as the Virgin Mary.
Bernadette asked several
times the beautiful lady who she was, but she made no reply. Eventually,
the lady pronounced in Bernadette's native patois (the unschooled
child did not speak French):
Que soy era Immaculada Conceptiou - "I am The Immaculate
Conception."
Numerous miracles have, and continue to manifest at the spring where the
encounter took place, at the Rock of Massabielle.
  
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