This Friday we celebrate the Feast of St. Bernadette Soubirous. She was the humble, peasant girl, on whom was bestowed one of the greatest of earthly blessings…to be visited and spoken to by Our Blessed Mother, Mary. It is a remarkable story that sadly, even many Catholics, are not familiar with.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Thousands of the faithful in Ireland are rallying around a mysterious image of Our Lady clearly seen in the wood grain of a tree stump discovered when laborers were clearing trees on the grounds of a church. They have launched a petition drive to stop the stump from being disposed of.
