Bernadette decided that she wanted to devote her life to God. She went to a convent in Nevers. She spent the rest of her life there, helping others and creating beautiful embroidered garments for church.
She died on 16 th April at the age of The feast day of St Bernadette is April 16 th. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
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According to the story, Bernadette was tasked with helping to keep the operation organized. While it is known that Bernadette has five brothers and sisters, they are never seen, and only one brother is named. She lived and worked there, and learned to read and write. The sisters cared for the sick and poor, and Bernadette enjoyed being a caregiver, when her health would allow her to work. However, the sisters were reluctant to admit her into their order, while Bernadette, for her part, wondered about her vocation.
Bernadette did face some serious obstacles to being admitted to a religious order to become a nun. As Andre Ravier, SJ, noted in his book Bernadette, those obstacles included her notoriety, poor health, lack of education, and poverty.
However, after a meeting with the Bishop of Nevers, Bernadette was allowed to enter the Sisters of Nevers. In July of , Bernadette received the religious habit with 43 other postulants, and joined the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers.
She became known as Sister Marie-Bernarde. Shortly thereafter, she became very ill, but slowly recovered. In October of , she made her religious profession in the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers with the other postulants.
From July of to April of , Bernadette lived at the convent of Saint-Gildard, and suffered from periodic bouts of poor health. Ravier noted that she received "Extreme Unction" last rites several times. The Catholic Online website stated that "in the convent, she would beg the nuns to tear open her chest that she might breathe. As Keyes noted in her book, people would come to the convent, wanting to see the Bernadette who had the visions of the Virgin Mary.
She in turn would pretend to be someone else, offer to find Sister Marie-Bernarde for the person, and slip away. Although Bernadette suffered from poor health, it appears she was content with her life as a nun. She was a caregiver to the ill and enjoyed her private times of prayer. Ravier noted the she was prone to "sudden outbursts of good spirits," and was "very active, stubborn, and opinionated.
Despite this, the novice-mistress considered Bernadette to be "modest, pious, devout, and orderly. As noted on the Online Anglican resources website, Bernadette was encouraged by many to go to Lourdes to be healed. She refused, stating the healings "were for others, not for her, and that her business was to bear her illness. She died on April 16, in Nevers, France. According to the Lourdes France official website, long after her death, Bernadette's body was exhumed three times, in , , and then in Since August of , Bernadette's totally preserved the doctor's consider her body to be "mummified" body has been in a Shrine in the Chapel of the Convent of St.
Gildard, in Nevers, France. She was beatified declared "Blessed" in Her feast day is April Ten years after sainthood, she was the subject of the Academy Award-winning song, "Song of Bernadette. In writing the introduction in Ravier's book, Patrick O'Donovan, wrote of Bernadette, "She may have been an inelegant and muddy peasant girl with a quarrelsome family; she became by training, suffering, and conscious acceptance, one of the greatest ladies in the hierarchy of history and heaven.
Lourdes is one of the most popular destinations for Catholics around the world, as well as for those seeking cures for their illnesses. In the mids, it was drawing four million visitors per year. As noted on the Lourdes France official website, visitors can see a plaque that marks the exact spot where Bernadette stood.
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