--- title: "St. Bernadette Soubirous: Feast Day April 16, Life & Quotes" url: https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernadette-soubirous/ description: "St. Bernadette Soubirous, Virgin, patron of the sick and Lourdes pilgrims. Remembered on April 16. Read their life and their own words, with sources." --- Virgin · Remembered on April 16 # St. Bernadette Soubirous St. Bernadette Soubirous is remembered on April 16 in Bless’s calendar of saints. Traditionally invoked as patron of the sick and Lourdes pilgrims. Below: a short life and 2 sourced quotations in their own words. | | | |---|---| | Remembered on | [April 16](https://blessbible.app/saints/april/#16) | | Title | Virgin | | Died | 1879 | | Patron of | [the sick](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#sick), [Lourdes pilgrims](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#lourdes-pilgrims) | | In their own words | [2 sourced quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernadette-soubirous/#words) | | Next on Bless’s Today screen | [Friday, April 16, 2027](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernadette-soubirous/#calendar) | ## Life A miller’s daughter of Lourdes, sickly and unlettered, to whom the Virgin appeared eighteen times at the grotto of Massabielle in 1858, naming herself the Immaculate Conception and leaving a spring that still heals. Bernadette carried the questioning of Church and state with unshakable simplicity, then hid herself in a convent at Nevers, where she died at thirty-five, counting herself no more than a broom the Virgin had used. ## Patron of Tradition invokes St. Bernadette Soubirous as patron of the sick and Lourdes pilgrims. [Sick](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#sick) [Lourdes pilgrims](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#lourdes-pilgrims) ### Saints with the same patronage - [St. Camillus de Lellis](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-camillus-de-lellis/) the sick · July 18 Patronages are traditional, not an official list. [All patron saints in Bless, A to Z](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/). ## In their own words Each quotation names the work it comes from. Bless quotes these in the comments beside the verses listed under [In Scripture](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernadette-soubirous/#scripture). > The more I am crucified, the more I rejoice. — *Personal notes, Nevers*, c. 1875 > O Jesus, keep me under the standard of Your cross. Let me not just look at You crucified but have You living in my heart. — *Words to a fellow sister*, c. 1870 ## In Scripture In Bless, St. Bernadette Soubirous’s words appear in the comments beside these verses. This page’s labels say how each is linked: “on this verse” means the saint wrote about that very verse; “on this theme” means the quotation shares its theme. Scripture is quoted from the Catholic Public Domain Version. 1. On this theme > I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me. — [Galatians 2:20](https://blessbible.app/bible/galatians/2/#v20) · CPDV Beside their words: [“O Jesus, keep me under the standard of Your cross. Let me not just look at You crucified…”](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernadette-soubirous/#q140) 2. On this theme > But far be it from me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world. — [Galatians 6:14](https://blessbible.app/bible/galatians/6/#v14) · CPDV Beside their words: [“The more I am crucified, the more I rejoice.”](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernadette-soubirous/#q139) 3. On this theme > so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity. — [Ephesians 3:17](https://blessbible.app/bible/ephesians/3/#v17) · CPDV Beside their words: [“O Jesus, keep me under the standard of Your cross. Let me not just look at You crucified…”](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernadette-soubirous/#q140) 4. On this theme > For now I rejoice in my passion on your behalf, and I complete in my flesh the things that are lacking in the Passion of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the Church. — [Colossians 1:24](https://blessbible.app/bible/colossians/1/#v24) · CPDV Beside their words: [“The more I am crucified, the more I rejoice.”](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-bernadette-soubirous/#q139) ## In the calendar The upcoming dates, through December 31, 2028, when Bless’s Today screen shows St. Bernadette Soubirous. Where the US calendar keeps another celebration that day, it is named instead and no rank is given. | Date | In the US calendar | Color | Mass readings (US) | |---|---|---|---| | [Friday, April 16, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/04/16/) | Friday of the Third Week of Easter | White | Acts 9:1-20 · Psalm 117:1bc, 2 · John 6:56 · John 6:52-59 | | [Sunday, April 16, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/04/16/) | The Resurrection of the Lord | White | Acts 10:34a, 37-43 · Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 · Colossians 3:1-4 · Cf. 1 Corinthians 5:7 · John 20:1-9 | Readings Reading citations through May 31, 2027 are as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar. Later citations were computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish. 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