St. Bernadette

Catholic Saints

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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St. Bernadette grew up in poverty, sickness, and simplicity. Her family for a time even resided in a flat that formerly functioned as a jail cell! Listen to the story of this humble saint who received visions of the Blessed Mother even prior to understanding she was speaking to the mother of Jesus. Dr. Arielle Harms reflects upon St. Bernadette's life in this episode of Catholic Saints.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.
0:05.5	This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:20.1	Hello, welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Mary and I'm joined with Dr. Ariel Harms.
0:26.2	Dr. Ariel, thank you for joining us.
0:28.4	Thank you for having me.
0:29.6	I'm excited to dive into the life of St. Bernadette, a beloved saint by so many and an incredible pilgrimage site is associated with the Marian
0:42.5	apparitions that she received. So excited to learn more about her, just as we look to the lives
0:48.3	of saints for inspiration in our own life as well. So let's begin with her early childhood and
0:53.5	family life. Can you cast a sketch
0:55.8	of where she came from, what her childhood was like that we know about? Yeah. So she was born on January
1:03.1	7th in 1844. She was the oldest of nine children born to her parents, Francis and Louise,
1:11.2	near what we now know as lords.
1:13.6	Frances was a Miller, but he wasn't very good,
1:17.8	either with managing his family's money
1:19.9	or with his trade work as a miller, unfortunately,
1:24.2	and the family was extremely poor.
1:27.2	By the time Bernadette was a teenager, they were actually living in a basement that had formerly been used as a jail.
1:36.2	That's crazy.
1:37.5	Yeah.
1:37.8	Wow.
1:38.7	Okay, so great destitution, great poverty, and a big family.
1:44.7	Yeah.
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