AJAX — Having come from a family that helped build St. Bernadette’s Catholic School, Wendy (Azzopardi) Holliday was always stuck playing the saint. And when it came to a wall-size mural still painted ...

“Without the statue of St. Bernadette, the shrine wouldn’t have the central figure of who made it happen,” said the 2021 University of Manitoba fine arts graduate.

As people pass, some want to lay a hand on the stand, some stare reverentially, while others simply pause. Think of the relics of St Bernadette almost as religious rock stars.

Our Lady is said to have appeared 18 times to the young girl, named Bernadette Soubirous, in Lourdes, France, in 1858. Born at foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains in 1844, Bernadette died in 1879 ...

This paternity of St. Joseph in Bernadette’s life, explained Doze, would never become more evident than at the moment of her death in 1879. For several months preceding, she had suffered ...

On April 30, St. Bernadette’s holy remains will be displayed at the EWTN Chapel in Irondale, Alabama. The televised 8am Eastern Mass will be a votive Mass of St. Bernadette.