16 April - Saint Bernadette - Independent Catholic News

16 April

 - Saint Bernadette - Independent Catholic News: Visionary, and later nun. Born in 1844, Bernadette was the eldest of six children born to Francois Soubirous, a miller, and his wife Louise. The family lived in great poverty. When they couldn¹t afford to pay the rent, after 1857 the family were forced to live in one room of an old prison. Throughout her childhood Bernadette suffered many illnesses, including cholera. She had asthma all her life. In 1858, when she was just 14, she began to experience