Miracles at both shrines show how God uses simple elements — just as he did in Scripture — to bring healing and conversion.

Eventually everyone did believe Bernadette and the grotto at Lourdes became a place of worship and the Lourdes holy water was sacred for performing miracles. At the age of 22, Bernadette became a ...

COMMENTARY: After the Blessed Mother appeared to her in 1858, the French peasant girl sought simple religious life 400 miles ...

In 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes in southern France ... a spring began to flow. The water from this still flowing spring has shown remarkable healing power, though it contains ...