Saint of the Day for February 11
Saint of the Day
Liturgical calendar Our Lady of Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes
Title of Mary, mother of Jesus
Our Lady of Lourdes is one of the devotional names or titles under which the Catholic Church venerates the Virgin Mary. The name commemorates a series of 18 apparitions reported by a 14-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubirous, in Lourdes, France in 1858. After the first reported apparition on 11 February 1858, Bernadette told her mother that a "Lady" had spoken to her in the cave of Massabielle while Bernadette, her sister, and a friend were gathering firewood. Bernadette reported similar apparitions of the "Lady" over the ensuing weeks, in the last of which the "Lady" identified herself as "the Immaculate Conception". On 18 January 1862, the local Bishop of Tarbes Bertrand-Sévère Laurence endorsed the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes.
Other saints and blesseds of the day
- Gregory II89th Pope of the Catholic Church (from 715 to 731)
- Paschal Ipope
- Vsevolod of PskovRussian prince and saint
- Saint George of Kratovoorthodox south Slavic writer, Saint and Silversmith from Kratovo
- Pedro de Jesús MaldonadoMexican priest (1892-1937)
- Odo I of BeauvaisFrankish abbot and bishop (9th century)
- Séverin d'Agaune
Bible Verse of the Day
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
On February 11 the Church remembers several saints and blesseds. Every day of the year has its saints: browse them all in the saints calendar.