--Mary came to St. Bernadette in Lourdes --On February 11, 1858, when St. Bernadette was sent with her younger sister and a friend to gather firewood, a very beautiful Lady, dressed in blue and white --The Lady, who was the blessed Virgin Mary, appeared to her over a rose bush in a grotto called Massabielle --No one believed Bernadette when she told everyone of the lovely lady, but one day the Blessed Virgin Mary told Bernadette to dig in the mud, as she did, a spring of water began to flow into a pool. --This water had caused many miracles to happen when people used the water