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Side Trip to Nevers, France
Saint-Gildard's Convent & Museum

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(Left) Replica of the Lourdes Grotto at Saint-Gildard's Convent in Nevers. (Right) Saint-Gildard's Convent courtyard, directly opposite of the Grotto. Saint-Gildard's Chapel is seen here in the right-hand corner; this chapel houses the body of Bernadette, which was placed here since her Beatification in 1925.

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(Left) Only known photo of Bernadette in the Grotto at Lourdes. (Right) Sister Marie Bernard as a postulant.

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1. Diverse objects used by Sister Marie-Bernard: one of her gloves worn when she was a postulant; the iron she used for the holy pictures she liked to make. A few samples are shown here.

2. The rosary Bernadette used during her sleepness nights.

3. The crucifix sent to Bernadette by Pope Pius IX.

4. The Way of the Cross with which Bernadette meditated during her times of illness.

5. Rough copies of Bernadette's letter to the Pope saying the Virgin said to Bernadette, "I am the Immaculate Conception."

6. Copy of the bill for Cannonization by Pope Pius XI.

7. Pope Pius XI.

8. Our Lady of the Waters -- a statue of the Blessed Virgin in the garden at St-Gildard's Convent.  Bernadette liked this statue better than any others.

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The body of St. Bernadette as if was in her first coffin. The Crucifix you see, Sister Marie-Bernard received when she pronounced her religous vows and which was placed in her hands after her death, where it remained until August 20, 1909.

The body of Bernadette as it is placed today, located to the right of the main altar in Saint-Gildard's Chapel.