Why was St. Bernadette canonized?

Answer 1

Colette was canonized on May 24, 1807, by Pope Pius VII
Saint Colette (13 January 1381 — 6 March 1447), born Nicolette Boylet or Boellet, was the founder of the order of Colettine Poor Clares (the Clarisses), a reformation of the Urbanist Poor Clares.

Born at Calcye near Corbie in Picardy in January 1381, her father, Robert Boellet, was the carpenter of the famous Benedictine Abbey of Corbie. Her mother's name was Marguerite Moyon. After her parents died in 1398, Colette became a hermit under the direction of the Abbot of Corbie, living near the abbey church. Gaining a reputation for holiness, she became a tertiary of the Franciscan order.[1] She joined the Beguines and the Benedictines.[citation needed] Following several dreams and visions, she believed that she was being called to reform the Urbanist Poor Clares, and return it to its original Franciscan ideals of absolute poverty and austerity. She turned to the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII who was recognized in France as the rightful pope. Benedict allowed her to enter the Franciscan order of Poor Clares and empowered her by several Bulls, dated 1406, 1407, 1408, and 1412, to found new convents and complete the reform of the order..[2] With the approval of the Countess of Geneva and the aid of the Franciscan itinerant preacher, Henri de la Beaume, her confessor and spiritual guide, Colette began her work at Beaume, in the diocese of Geneva. She remained there but a short time and soon opened at Besançon her first convent in an almost-abandoned house of Urbanist Poor Clares. Thence her reform spread to Auxonne (1410), to Poligny, to Ghent (1412), to Heidelberg (1444), to Amiens, and to other communities of Poor Clares. To the seventeen convents founded during her lifetime must be added another begun by her at Pont-à-Mousson in Lorraine. For the convents reformed by her she prescribed extreme poverty, to go barefooted, and the observance of perpetual fast and abstinence. During the Council of Constance she wrote to disavow Benedict, and during the Council of Basel she wrote to ask the bishops to withdraw. She also inaugurated a reform among the Franciscan friars (the Coletani), not to be confounded with the Observants. These Coletani remained obedient to the authority of the provincial of the Franciscan convents, and never attained much importance, even in France. In 1448 they had only thirteen convents, and together with other small branches of the Franciscan Order, were suppressed in 1517 by Leo X. In addition to the strict rules of the Poor Clares, the Colettines follow their special constitutions sanctioned in 1434 by the General of the Franciscans, William of Casale, approved in 1448 by Nicholas V, in 1458 by Pius II, and in 1482 by Sixtus IV. Colette died at Ghent in 1447. She was beatified 23 January 1740, and canonized 24 May 1807. The Colettine Sisters are found today, outside of France, in Belgium, Germany, Spain, England, and the United States.[3]

Answer 2

St. Bernadette was canonized by the Catholic Church due to her piety, humility, and dedication to the Virgin Mary. She is also recognized for her visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes, which led to the discovery of the famous Lourdes Grotto and the subsequent miracles associated with the site.

Answer 3

She became a saint the moment she entered heaven. She was canonized a saint on December 8, 1933, by Pope Pius XI.

Answer 4

Bernadette of Lourdes was beatified on June 14, 1925, by Pope Pius XI and canonized on December 8, 1933, by Pope Pius XI.

Answer 5

Bernadette was canonized on December 8,1933, by Pope Pius XI

Answer 6

Bernadette was canonized on December 8, 1933, by Pope Pius XI in the Vatican.

Answer 7

Read the biography linked below and see for yourself why Bernadette deserves the title of saint.

Answer 8

Bernadette was canonized on December 8, 1933, by Pope Pius XI.

Answer 9

St Bernadette Soubirous was canonized on the 8h of December in 1933 by Pope Pius XI