Saint Bernadette of Lourdes 1852 #1 is a painting by Jan Mecklenburg which was uploaded on July 20th, 2016.
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes 1852 #1
Bernadette (the nickname by which she is universally known) was the daughter of a miller and a laundress. She was the eldest of nine children. She... more
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Title
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes 1852 #1
Artist
Jan Mecklenburg
Medium
Painting - Acrylic Paint On Stretched Canvas
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Bernadette (the nickname by which she is universally known) was the daughter of a miller and a laundress. She was the eldest of nine children. She was born in 1844. Her family lived in extreme poverty. Bernadette contracted cholera as a toddler and suffered severe asthma for the rest of her life.
When Bernadette was 14 she was out gathering firewood with her sister Marie and a friend. There she experienced her first vision. She heard the sound of rushing wind but nothing moved. However, a wild rose in a niche in a grotto did move. From the niche �came a dazzling light, and a white figure.� Later in a testimony she called the light a �small, young lady.� This was the first of her 18 visions.
On her next visit, she said that "the vision" asked her to return to the grotto every day for a time. She explained that the vision had told her "to drink of the water of the spring, to wash in it and to eat the herb that grew there.�
The Lourdes Commission that examined Bernadette after the visions ran an intensive analysis on the water and found that, while it had a high mineral content, it contained nothing out of the ordinary that would account for the cures attributed to it. Bernadette said that it was faith and prayer that cured the sick.
Close to 5 million pilgrims from all over the world visit Lourdes (population of about 15,000) every year to pray and to drink the miraculous water, believing they obtain from the Lord healing of the body and of the spirit. This picture was made in the likeness of an old painting which was on the web.
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July 20th, 2016
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