#incorruptsaint

Saint Bernadette Soubirous

1844-1879

Feast Day: February 18 (new), April 16 (trad.)

Patronage: Bodily illness

Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was a miller's daughter born in Lourdes, France. She is best known as the seer of the Marian apparition know as Our Lady of Lourdes, where Mary Identified herself as the Immaculate Conception. She joined the Sisters at Nevers at the age of 22 and spent the rest of her brief life there. She contracted tuberculosis and died of the illness at the age of 35. Her body has remained incorrupt.

Saint Conrad of Piacenza

1290-1351

Feast Day: February 19

Patronage: Noto, Sicily, hermits, against hernias

Saint Conrad of Piacenza was born and married into nobility. He was the cause of a terrible forest fire that destroyed farms and fields, while on a hunt to flush out game. An innocent man was accused and condemned to death for this accident. St. Conrad overcame his cowardice and confessed and paid for the damages. Afterward, he and his wife agreed to enter religious life, he as a hermit and she as a Poor Clare. Once when he visited a bishop to make a general confession, he was surrounded by fluttering birds who escorted him home. He lived as a hermit for 36 years and his body was found incorrupt in 1485.