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APPARITION OF THE IMMACULATE VIRGIN MARY IN LOURDES Four years later the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the banks of the Gave de Pau River, in the diocese of Tarbes in France, the same Virgin showed herself eighteen times, from the 11th of February to the 16th of July 1858, in an inlet of a rock in the cove of Massabielle to a 14 years old girl commonly named Bernadette ( of the Soubirous family), very poor but ingenuous and pious. The Immaculate Virgin appeared young and benevolent of appearance, covered with a snow-white robe and veil, and girded with a celestial band; a golden rose adorned her bare feet.