St. Bernadette of Lourdes (born in Lourdes, France, in 1844) was the eldest of nine children from an impoverished family. Frail in health, she survived cholera at age 10 and suffered from asthma and other ailments throughout her life. To escape public attention after her miraculous visions of the Virgin Mary at age 14, she became a boarder in the local school run by the Sisters of Charity.
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