PY214BSP Our Lady of Lourdes #214

Each beautifully designed medal is stamped in heavy gauge bronze and finished in a heavy silver plating that is thick enough to be engraved. The medals are rubbed with a soft patina to give them the distinct 'Py look.'

Our Lady of Lourdes

Feast Day February 11

Our Lady of Lourdes is the name used to refer to the Marian apparition that is reported to have appeared before various individuals in separate occasions arounf Lourdes, France.For more information on St. Bernadette see Bio.of St Bernadette in Py Medals.com

The apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes began on 11 February 1858, when Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old peasant girl from Lourdes admitted, when questioned by her mother, that she had seen a "lady" in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from the town, while she was gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Similar appearances of the "lady" took place on seventeen further occasions that year.

Bernadette Soubirous was canonized as a saint, and many Catholics believe her visions to have been of the Virgin Mary. The first appearance of the "Lady" reported by Bernadette was on 11 February. Pope Pius IX authorized the local bishop to permit the veneration of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1862.

The First of the 18 apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the humble Bernadette took place at Lourdes on February 11, 1858. On March 25th, when Bernadette asked the beautiful Lady her name, she replied: "I am the Immaculate Conception."

Latin: N D Lourdes (nostre dames Lourdes) P.D.N (have pity on us)

Picture Shown is not actual size. Available in two sizes: 3/4" x 3/8", or 1 1/8" x 5/8"