Excerpts from a Letter from St. Bernadette about the Apparitions 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. Then I looked up and caught sight of the cave where I saw a lady wearing a lovely white dress with a bright belt. On top of each of her feet was a pale yellow rose, the same color as her rosary beads. Our Lady of Lourdes Novena Beautiful Photos from Lourdes Prayers and Devotions for the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes Pope John Paul II Angelus Message on His Pilgrimage to Lourdes, 2004 Encyclical of Pope Pius XII Warning Against Materialism on the Centenary of the Apparitions at Lourdes Clairity Daily: Our Lady's Place Rock of Massabielle, Poem Castle of the Immaculate: St. Bernadette and the Marian Vow Pope Benedict XVI on the Message of Lourdes "The message that the Madonna continues to spread at Lourdes recalls the words Jesus pronounced at the beginning of his public mission and that we hear again often during these days of Lent: 'Convert and believe in the Gospel,' pray and do penance."