Title of Our Lady
Our Lady of Lourdes
- Country / origin
- France
- Feast
- 11 February
Awaiting theological review
About this title
The title given to Mary after the apparitions to Saint Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes in 1858. 11 February is also the World Day of the Sick.
Biblical profile: Mary, Mother of Jesus →Patron of
- the sick
- healing
- hope
When to ask for intercession
- physical or spiritual illness
- treatments
- pilgrimages
A short prayer
Our Lady of Lourdes, Mother of the sick, intercede for all who suffer and bring us closer to your Son.
Written for Lumen as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
What we know — and how
Private revelation
An apparition approved by the Church: private revelation, worthy of belief but adding nothing to public Revelation. No Catholic is obliged to believe it (CCC 67).
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