Messages — Our Lady of Lourdes
Spoken words from the apparition accounts, curated from sanctuary, diocesan, and classic sources. Theme chips highlight recurring calls; this is not a complete critical edition of every diary line.
Words spoken during the eighteen apparitions to St. Bernadette Soubirous at the Grotto of Massabielle (1858). Many encounters were silent; only dates with reported speech are listed here.
6 ex 6 nuntiis
Textum selige ad illuminandum — te invitabimus ut accountum gratuitum crees.
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Third Apparition Would you have the kindness to come here for a fortnight?
I do not promise to make you happy in this world, but in the next.
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Sixth Apparition Pray for sinners.
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Eighth Apparition Penance! Penance! Penance! Pray to God for sinners. Go, kiss the ground for the conversion of sinners.
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Ninth Apparition — the Spring Go and drink at the spring and wash yourself there. Eat of the grass that is there.
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Thirteenth Apparition Go and tell the priests that people are to come here in procession and to build a chapel here.
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Sixteenth Apparition — the Name Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou.
(I am the Immaculate Conception.)
Fons Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes † Revelatio privata non est de fide tenenda. Approbatio permittit credere cum prudentia.