A 14-year-old poor girl from Lourdes who repeatedly witnesses visions of a beautiful lady in white at the Massabielle grotto. She remains steadfast despite interrogation and ridicule, eventually leading to a miraculous spring and a church investigation that confirms her visions are of the Virgin Mary. She later joins a convent, secretly endures severe bone tuberculosis, refuses miraculous healing, and dies peacefully after a final apparition.
Royal figure whose intervention accelerates the official investigation.
Bernadette's older sister who accompanies her to the grotto and shares the secret.
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