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Bernadette's Lourdes
The mill where Bernadette was born and the one-room former jail where her poor family lived at the time of the visions.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- 15 Rue des Petits Fossés, 65100 LourdesDirections
- Getting There
- In the old town, a 10-minute walk from the sanctuary.
Why Go
The Boly Mill, her birthplace, and the Cachot, a damp cell where six members of the Soubirous family lived, show the poverty she came from. She later became a nun in Nevers, where she died in 1879, and was made a saint in 1933.
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