FILM 9 audio versions + subtitles
Français, Italiano, Español, English, Occitan Bigourdan, Deutsch, Nederlands, Polski, Português.
Original Soundtrack : OC et Lithurgie de Lourdes
Total runing time : 15 minutes
Located in France, at the foot of the Pyrenees, Lourdes developed around a rocky peak on which a castle had been built.
In 1858, some very strange things happened in this small Pyrenean town. A Lady appeared eighteen times to a 14-year-old girl called Bernadette Soubirous. The visions took place in the Grotte de Massabielle. Bernadette was always the only one to see and hear her visions, but was never alone in the Grotto: more and more people would come to pray and observe.
Le Moulin de Boly is the house where Bernadette was born in 1844. Her father was a miller, but the family business was too rudimentary to survive the age of industrialisation. Ruined, the Soubirous family resorted to a damp, dark cell in the former prison, 'Le Cachot'. This is where Bernadette lived on 11 February 1858, the day she set off for the Grotte de Massabielle. Here is the parish church where Bernadette was baptised in this very baptismal font. The chapel of the former hospice is where Bernadette made her First Holy Communion, immediately prior to her last vision.
Bernadette related her visions and acted on them. One day, the Lady who spoke to her in Occitan revealed her identity: "I am the Immaculate Conception". Another day, the Virgin said: "Go and drink from the spring and wash in its waters. Eat the grass growing there." Bernadette could not see a spring so started to scratch at the earth. Her fingers uncovered a spring, hitherto unknown. She would go on to explain: "I only found a little muddy water. But on my fourth attempt, I could drink."
After her Visions, Bernadette yearned for the religious life, which she commenced at Lourdes hospice. It was run by the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, who subsequently sent her to the order's headquarters for training. Let's follow Bernadette to Nevers…
Bernadette remained at Saint-Gildard's convent for 13 years, working as an auxiliary nurse or in the sacristy. After frequent bouts of illness, she died at the age of 35. Exhumed some thirty years after her death, then twice again, she seemed simply to slumber.
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