I Am the Immaculate Conception
Fulfilled1858 AD — Lourdes, France
On March 25, 1858, after Bernadette asked four times for her name, the Lady joined her hands, raised her eyes to heaven, and said in Occitan: 'Que soy era Immaculada Councepciou' — 'I am the Immaculate Conception.' This was just four years after Pope Pius IX had solemnly defined the dogma. Bernadette, a poor illiterate girl, did not know this theological term — yet she repeated it perfectly to her parish priest.
Lourdes apparition accounts (Church Approved 1862)
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