14th June 1925 - 14th June 2025: Centenary of the beatification of Bernadette Soubirous

14th June 2025 marks the centenary of the beatification of Bernadette Soubirous. This anniversary is the occasion for numerous spiritual and cultural events in Lourdes and Nevers, where her body lies intact.Come and spend three days of grace with Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes.

Programme for the Triduum of the Beatification of Bernadette at Lourdes ( 12th-14th June 2025)

Thursday 12th June 2025:

 • 9.30am: Jubilee Way (Meet at the Information Centre)
• 11.15am: Mass at the Rosary Basilica
• 2.00pm: In Bernadette’s footsteps (Meet at the Information Centre)
• 3.00pm: Rosary at the Grotto
• 4.15pm: Catechesis on the message of Lourdes centred on Saint Bernadette (Meet at the Information Centre)

Friday 13th June 2025:

 • 9.30am: Jubilee Way (Meet at the Information Centre)
• 11.15am: Mass at the Rosary Basilica
• 2.00 pm: In Bernadette’s footsteps (Meeting at the Information Centre)
• 3.00pm: Rosary at the Grotto
• 4.15pm: Catechesis on the message of Lourdes centred on Saint Bernadette (Meet at the Information Centre)
• 9:00 pm: Marian procession with relics (Rosary Esplanade)

Saturday 14th June 2025:

 • 10.00am: Thanksgiving Mass at the Grotto
• 2.00 pm: In Bernadette’s footsteps
• 3.00pm: Rosary at the Grotto
• 4.15pm: Catechesis on the message of Lourdes centred on Saint Bernadette (Meet at the Information Centre)
• 9.00 pm: Marian procession with relics
• 10.00-11.00 pm: Performance of ‘Bernadette recounts the apparitions’ by Jeanne Montaigu (personal narrative, text by Abbé R. Laurentin) accompanied by a series of songs ( Rosary Esplanade)

Open-air exhibition on the centenary of Bernadette’s beatification, in partnership with the Convent of Saint-Gildard in Nevers and the Sanctuary’s archives and heritage department, on the walls of the Saint Bernadette church, opposite the Grotto.

“A poor beggar's prayer to Jesus.”

“O Jesus, give me, I pray you,
the bread of humility,
the bread of obedience,
the bread of charity,
the bread of strength to break my will and melt it to yours,
the bread of inner mortification,
the bread of detachment from creatures,
the bread of patience to bear the pain that my heart suffers.
O Jesus, you want me crucified, fiat,
the bread of strength to suffering well,
the bread of seeing only you alone in everything and always,
Jesus, Mary, the Cross, I want no other friends than these.”
Bernadette Soubirous