This teaching holds that Mary, as the mother of Jesus, was conceived without original sin – the incomplete union with God that, according to Catholic belief, all people are born with as a result of Adam and Eve’s disobeying God in the Garden of Eden.Ĭhurch officials were quickly alerted to Soubirous’ experiences and were initially concerned about the truth of her account. Many Catholics interpreted the apparitions as confirming the doctrine of Immaculate Conception, which Pope Pius IX in 1854 had declared to be an essential element of Catholic faith. These extraordinary events soon attracted the notice of the Parisian press and gained the support of the French imperial court. Reports of the events drew large crowds who believed them to be apparitions of the Virgin Mary, and many people began attributing healing properties to the waters of the spring. In other messages, the lady asked for a church to be built there so priests could come in procession. Soubirous said that the figure identified herself as “ the Immaculate Conception” and instructed the girl to dig into the earth and drink the water she found there. In 1858, a 14-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous reported having 18 visions of a beautiful “young lady” in a cave near Lourdes, which was then a provincial town. I am a Jesuit priest and theologian whose research focuses on Mariology, the academic study of ideas about Mary in Christian history. This popular pilgrimage is one of the most visible examples of the devotion of many Catholics to Mary. Some 6 million pilgrims come to the shrine in Lourdes, France, each year to pray and seek healing. 11, in the church’s annual liturgical calendar. Lourdes is one of the very few apparitions the Vatican has officially commended as worthy of belief, with its own feast day, Feb. Of all of these, the most renowned are the visions of Our Lady of Lourdes, reported in the mid-19th century by a teenage girl in the French Pyrenees mountains.Įver since, devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes has gripped the Catholic imagination. Thousands of apparitions of the Virgin Mary have been reported by Christians across the world, from fourth-century Asia Minor, which is now Turkey, to contemporary California. Read the original article, which was published February 9, 2022. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.
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