On this day in 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, (pictured above) near Lourdes in southern France, Our Lady appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl. She would evetually appear to the girl, now known as St. Bernadette, eighteen times. She revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception, asked that a chapel be built on the site of the vision, and told the girl to drink from a fountain in the grotto.
No fountain was to be seen, but when Bernadette dug at a spot designated by the apparition, a spring began to flow. The water from this still flowing spring has shown remarkable healing power, though it contains no curative property that science can identify.
Fr. Damian celebrated Mass in this grotto in 2009.
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