Hired out as a servant from age 12 to 14. She received 18 more in the next 5 months, and was led to a spring of healing waters. The sisters cared to the sick and indigent, and at age 22 they admitted Bernadette into their order since she was both. Always sick, and often mistreated by her superiors, she died with a prayer for Mary 's aid.
Body is incorruptible.
Since the appearances of Mary to young Bernadette in 1858, more than 200 million people have visited the shrine of Lourdes. Jesus is for me honor, delight, heart and soul. The more I am crucified, the more I rejoice. I had gone down one day with two other girls to the bank of the river Gave when suddenly I heard a kind of rustling sound. I turned my head toward the field by the side of the river, but the trees seemed quite still and the noise was evidently not from them.