2012 Event Following severe floods in southern France, hundreds of pilgrims are evacuated from the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes 1996 Birthday Lourdes Marie Ciccone Leon, daughter of singer Madonna 1958 Birthday Lourdes Ann Kananimanu Estores, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, playmate, Jun, 1982 1957 Event Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes 1926 Birthday Maria de Lourdes Martins, composer 1879 Death Bernadette, st/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies in Nevers France 1858 Event 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France 1844 Birthday Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, saint/visionary
