Bernadette, a poor girl in Lourdes, received a series of seventeen apparitions in 1858 from Our Lady proclaiming that she was the Immaculate Conception.
The dogma of the Immaculate Conception was promulgated by the church a mere four years later.
After receiving these apparitions, Bernadette entered a convent where she lived a life of remarkable and humble sanctity until her death in 1879.
St. Bernadette, pray for us!