Immaculate Conception Virgin Mary Assumption 07 Poster

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is said to have been assumed into heaven and is titled Queen of Heaven by God the Father, Jesus Son of God, and the Holy Spirit. Lourdes is a Vatican approved Catholic Church accepted Marian Apparition, where the Blessed Virgin Mary, The Mother of God appeared to Marie Bernadette on a total of eighteen occasions at Lourdes and Identified herself as the Immaculate Conception. Lourdes has become a major place of Roman Catholic pilgrimage and of miraculous healings. The 150th Jubilee of the first apparition took place on 11 February 2008 with an outdoor Mass attended by approximately 45,000 pilgrims. Bernadette Soubirous is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church her body has remained internally incorrupt.