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Alexander MacCallum
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February 11, 1858...

"For brevity, we summarize the events described more fully in the article by Saints and Blesseds on the miraculous story of Bernadette.

From the first appearance of the “Beautiful Lady Dressed in White”, as she had always defined her, the shepherdess immediately began praying the Rosary. In her true naivety she never dared to associate that vision with the Madonna. It was the people who did it, with the grave opposition of Abbot Peyramale who, precisely in that historical context of the predominance of Masonic culture, feared the repression that would come from the government authorities.

But knowing the girl’s good faith, he asked her to ask the Beautiful Lady who she was.

With joy, Bernadette, after the apparition on March 25, 1858, ran to the religious with the answer received that day: «“Que soy era Immaculada Councepciou…” (I am the Immaculate Conception)» she repeated in the local dialect as she had heard. The priest was shocked because the girl had told him a theological concept that she could not have known for two reasons...

First, because the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception had been proclaimed by Pope Pius IX only 4 years earlier and very few religious people from the suburbs and especially parishioners knew its meaning.

Secondly, because the 14-year-old shepherdess was so ignorant and forgetful that she risked not being able to make her First Commun

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