Bernadette, herself, was poor and ill all her life. She knows what it is like to experience poverty and poor health.
Because of poor health Bernadette had virtually no education until she entered a convent in her teens. It was there that she learned to read and write
After her middle name Bernarda
The Village of St. Bernadette was created in 1960.
No, there were thousands of saints before St. Bernadette was canonized
St. Bernadette of Lourdes.
Bernadette of Lourdes has no symbols.
Her family was desperately poor and Le Cachot was all they could afford.
St. Bernadette is the patron saint of: * against bodily ills * against illness * against poverty * against sickness * Lourdes, France * people ridiculed for their piety * poor people * shepherdesses * shepherds * sick people
As far as I can find, there is only St. Bernadette of Lourdes.
St. Bernadette of Lourdes School was created in 1947.
Bernadette suffered from tuberculosis of the bone.