Translations:Saint Bernadette/5/en

Bernadette Soubirous was the eldest child of a poor milling family from the village of Lourdes, in southwest France at the foot of the Pyrenees. On February 11, 1858, Bernadette was gathering firewood near a rocky grotto. Alerted by a noise like a storm, she turned towards the grotto. There in one of the openings of the rock she saw a lone rosebush that waved as if blown by a secret wind. A golden cloud formed there and soon after a lady of magnificent beauty appeared above the rosebush.