The apparitions of the Holy Mother of God that took place in Lourdes in 1858
B'dette drinks from the spring at each apparition from 25 February to April 7
Date & Liturgical Private
information Rosary Candles Ecstasy Speech Instructions to B'dette, Priests & Public Comments Crowd
1st apparition
The Lady greeted B'dette with a slight bow,
moving her arms away from her side.. With a B'dette beheld her beautiful Lady for the first time. Not
11 February, last Thursday great rosary in her hand she signed herself with in the niche. She can only make the sign of the cross
before Lent √ X √ X the sign of the Cross. after her Lady. 2
2nd apparition
stone thrown, B'dette disturbed and dragged from the
Grotto - they think she is dead. Her Lady accompanies
14 February,Q'qu'g'a B'dette cries out "it is getter brighter- look her to the Savy Mill. Antoine Nicolau would point to a
Sunday √ X √ X there she has a rosary on her right arm" window and say "that is where Our Lady went out". 20
3rd apparition
B'dette says" If you have come from God please
tell me what you want. If not go away. Please
write down what you want of me" the Lady
says "there is no need for me to write anything
down. If I cannot make you happy in this world, B'dette had put pen, paper and blotter in the Grotto. As
I can in another. Come here for 15 days and in all the apparitions the Lady moved about, sometimes
18 February, 1st Thursday you will give me great pleasure." B'dette replies forward and back, sometimes above the niche and others
in Lent √ √ X X "I will come" below it. 2
4th apparition
Bernade Nicolau, Aunt and Godmother was with B'dette
and states "I never questioned her about the secrets, she
19 February, 1st Friday in never told me anything except what the Lady ordered her
Lent √ √ √ √ Private content only to". 6
5th apparition
B'dette carried the three secrets and a private prayer to
20 February, 1st Saturday in the grave. Later when quizzed that secrets were no good
Lent √ √ √ √ Private content only if unknown she states "they are very useful to me". 20
6th apparition
B'dette was asked afterwards why she had been tears had rolled down B'dette's cheeks during ecstasy.
21 February, 1st Sunday in sad. She replied the Lady had been sad and From joy to sadness. Interrogated by police she is
Lent √ √ √ X asked "Pray for sinners" denied access to the Grotto. 20
The apparitions of the Holy Mother of God that took place in Lourdes in 1858
B'dette drinks from the spring at each apparition from 25 February to April 7
On Monday 22 February late in the afternoon B'dette is
22 February, Monday in compelled to go to the Grotto. Her Lady does not
the 1st week in Lent X X X X NO APPARITION appear. B'dette retires weeping followed by jeers 20
7th apparition
23 February, Tuesday in
the 1st week in Lent √ √ √ √ private content only Monsieur Estrade is present and convinced! 100
8th apparition
24 February, Wed'day in B'dette says the Lady talks to her in Patois and B'dette cries, someone has touched the rose bush by her
the 1st week in Lent. √ √ √ √ calls her "vous" Lady's feet - she fears she will fall
9th apparition
The Lady points with her finger to where the crowd think B'dette is mad, scrabbling about on her
B'dette should go. "Go and drink at the knees in the mud. Within 24 hours Louis Bouriette is
25 February, Thursday in fountain and wash yourself in it. Go and eat the cured by the water of blindness in his eye damaged 20
the 1st week in Lent √ √ X √ plant you will find there" years earlier. 400
10th apparition
B'dette kisses the ground, obliges the crowd to kissing the ground, washing her face in the spring of the
26 February Friday in the do the same. Walking on her knees. The Lady grotto. Eats the plant again, Aunt Lucille faints and the
1st week of Lent √ √ √ √ has asked this for penance for sinners. ecstasy ends!. 800
11th apparition
Clarens the schoolmaster is present and interviews
B'dette goes on her knees into the grotto. B'dette the next day. She confirms kissing the ground
27 February, Saturday in Returns and then goes in again, kissing the was an act of penance asked for by the Lady, for herself
the 1st week in Lent √ √ √ √ ground. and others. 2000
12th apparition
All the crowd kneel and pray with B'dette - if an
unfortunate man should forget to take his hat off a
thousand hands are ready to tear it from him. An old
B'dette on her knees backwards and forwards constable who was there said "It is getting fiercer and
28 February, 2nd Sunday in into the Grotto, kissing the ground. Her Aunt fiercer". Attempts to raise umbrellas in the rain was met
Lent √ √ √ √ carries her candle. by a great cry of "A bas Les Parapluies" 2000
13th apparition
The Lady asks B'dette " where is your rosary?"
B'dette replies "in my pocket". "Let me see it"
asks the Lady, B'dette holds it up high - thus the
1 March, Monday in the confusion about rosary blessing (B'dette was B'dette on her knees, to and fro kissing the ground. This
2nd week in Lent √ √ √ √ using another rosary) is the last of the "penitential apparitions". 1300
14th apparition
The apparitions of the Holy Mother of God that took place in Lourdes in 1858
B'dette drinks from the spring at each apparition from 25 February to April 7
B'dette states "the Lady has asked for a
2 March, Tuesday in the procession. I will ask the priests to try and Of all the apparitions this one is the least written about
2nd week of Lent X X √ X arrange one, also that a chapel should be built". and recorded. The ecstasy was only for a few minutes. 3000
15th apparition
B'dette is very distressed as the Lady did not
appear in the morning. When she does see her
Lady she is told "you did not see me this
morning because there were people there who Later in the day her Aunt Lucille takes her to the Grotto,
wished to see your face when you were in my the Lady was there waiting. This apparition is generally
3 March, Wednesday the presence. They were unworthy for they spent the one not included in most accounts. Verified by
2nd week in Lent. √ √ √ X the night in the grotto and dishonoured it". Jeanne Vedere her cousin and others. 3000
16th apparition
4 March, Thursday in the The Lady, sometimes sad asks B'dette to pray B'dette smiles 18 times in emulation of the Lady. She
2nd week in Lent √ √ √ √ for sinners. moves about in the Grotto 4000
17th apparition
B'dette asks "will you please tell me who you
are" repeating this request three times. The
Lady joined hands (she had hitherto held them unlike all other apparitions this took place before dawn,
in the position we see on the miraculous medal) around four am and very few people were there. B'dette
raised her eyes to heaven and said "I AM THE had awoken in the night with a great desire to go to the
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION". I want a Grotto. The Lady smiled and was pleased to see a small
chapel to be built here". "I have already told statue of the Immaculate Conception in the niche. The
them what you have asked of me but they Lady also asked B'dette to leave her candle. This
25 March, Thursday Feast demand a miracle in proof of your wish" replies apparition was at ground level, ie. Today at the height of
of the Annunciation of the B'dette. The Lady smiled again and the top of an altar missal, underneath the niche - not in
BVM √ √ √ X disappeared. it. 20
18th apparition
For the last time the people were privileged to see
B'dette in the presence of the Queen of heaven. For the
first and probably the last time in history, the rosary was
Our Lady preserves B'dette from harm when recited by several hundred men and women who knew
7 April Wednesday after the flame of the candle should have burnt her they were in the presence of the Mother of God , in
Easter Sunday √ √ √ X hand! whose honor in was composed 1000
19th Apparition
The apparitions of the Holy Mother of God that took place in Lourdes in 1858
B'dette drinks from the spring at each apparition from 25 February to April 7
B'dette was to say 'never had I seen her look so lovely'.
B'dette was on the opposite bank of the Gave as the
16 July Friday Feast of Our Our Lady showed herself dressed in white as grotto was closed - but sensed no separation from her
Lady of Mount Carmel √ √ √ X she always did. Lady. This last farewell took place in the evening. 8
The above facts are taken from "We Saw Her"
translated and arranged by B G Sandhurst
published by Longmans 1953. Introduction and
endorsement by CC Martindale SJ