In 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes in southern France, Our Lady appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl. She revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception ...

From that a spring came forth which to this day is used for the bath by pilgrims to Lourdes. At the apparition of March 2, Bernadette was instructed by Our Lady to "tell the priests that people should ...