In 1858 a peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have received miraculous apparitions of a lady in a grotto near a waste dump beside a river. She first saw the woman while gathering wood...
She is Our Lady, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus. In different contexts she is referred to with many names. Our Lady of Lourdes is one of those, as she appeared to a 14 year old girl called...