1st Apparition. Thursday 11th February 1858: The Meeting
Bernadette, her sister and a friend went to Massabielle on the banks of the Gave to collect bones and dead wood. She heard a noise and looked up towards the Grotto : "I SAW A LADY DRESSED IN WHITE, SHE WORE A WHITE DRESS, AN EQUALLY WHITE VEIL, A BLUE BELT AND A YELLOW ROSE ON EACH FOOT." Bernadette made the Sign of the Cross and said the Rosary with the lady and the lady suddenly vanished.

2nd Apparition. Sunday 14th February: Holy Water
Bernadette was forbidden to go to the Grotto by her parents. At her insistence, she was allowed. She saw the same lady appearing. She sprinkled water at her. The lady smiled and bent her head. When the Rosary ended she disappeared.

3rd Apparition. Thursday 18th February: The Lady Speaks
The lady spoke for the first time. Bernadette held out a pen and paper asking her to write her name. She replied; "It is not necessary" and she added: "I do not promise to make you happy in this world but in the other. Would you be kind enough to come here for a fortnight?"

4th Apparition. Friday 19th February: Short and Silent Apparition
Bernadette visited the Grotto with a lighted blessed candle. This is origin of carrying candles and lighting them in front of the Grotto.

5th Apparition. Saturday 20th February: In Silence
The lady appeared and taught Bernadette a personal prayer. At the end of the vision she is overcome with a great sadness.

6th Apparition. Sunday 21st February: "Aquéro"
With about 100 people present the lady appeared to Bernadette very early in the morning. Afterwards the Police Commissioner, Jacomet, questioned her. He wanted Bernadette to describe what she had seen. Bernadette would only speak of "AQUÉRO" ("that thing" in local dialect)

7th Apparition. Tuesday 23rd February: The Secret.
Bernadette arrived at the Grotto surrounded by 150 people. The Apparition reveals to her a secret "only for her alone".

8th Apparition. Wednesday 24th February: Penance.
The message of the lady: "Penance! Penance! Penance! Pray to God for sinners. Kiss the ground as an act of penance for sinners!"

9th Apparition. Thursday 25th February: The Spring.
With 300 people present Bernadette relates; "She told me to go, drink of the spring. I only found a little muddy water. At the fourth attempt I was able to drink. She also made me eat the bitter herbs that were found near the spring, and then the vision left and went away." In front of the crowd that was asking "Do you think that she is mad doing things like that?" she replied; "It is for sinners."

10th Apparition. Saturday 27th February: Silence
Eight hundred people were present. The Apparition was silent. Bernadette drank the water from the spring and carried out her usual acts of penance.

11th Apparition. Sunday 28th February: Penance
Over one thousand people were present at the ecstasy. Bernadette prayed, kissed the ground and moved on her knees as a sign of penance. Judge Ribes threatened to put her in prison.

12th Apparition. Monday 1st March: The First Miracle
Over 1,500 people assembled and among them, for the first time, a priest. In the night, Catherine Latapie, a friend from Lourdes, went to the Grotto, she plunged her dislocated arm into the water of the spring. Her arm and her hand were healed.

13th Apparition. Tuesday 2nd March: Message to the Priests.
The crowd becomes larger and larger. The lady asked her: "Go, tell the priests to come here in procession and to build a chapel here." Bernadette spoke of this to Fr. Peyramale, the Parish Priest of Lourdes. He wanted to know the lady's name and he demanded another test: to see the wild rose bush flower at the Grotto in the middle of winter.

14th Apparition. Wednesday 3rd March: A Smile
From 7 o'clock in the morning, in the presence of 3,000 people, Bernadette arrives at the Grotto, but the vision did not appear! After school, she heard the inner invitation of the lady. She went to the Grotto and asked her again for her name. The response was a smile. The Parish Priest told her again: "If the lady really wishes that a chapel be built, then she must tell us her name and make the rose bush bloom at the Grotto."
 
15th Apparition. Thursday 4th March: The day all were waiting for!
The ever-greater crowd (about eight thousand people) waited for a miracle at the end of the fortnight. The vision was silent. Fr Peyramale stuck to his position. For twenty days Bernadette did not go to the Grotto.

16th Apparition. Thursday 25th. March: The Name they awaited for!
The vision finally revealed her name, but the wild rose bush did not bloom. Bernadette recounted; "She lifted up her eyes to heaven, joined her hands as though in prayer, that were held out and open towards the ground and said to me: Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou (I am the Immaculate Conception)." Bernadette left and ran home repeating the words that she did not understand. These words troubled the brave Parish Priest. Bernadette was ignorant of the fact that this theological expression was assigned to the Blessed Virgin. Four years earlier, in 1854, Pope Pius IX declared this a truth of the Catholic Faith (a dogma).

17th Apparition. Wednesday 7th. April: The Miracle of the Candle
During this Apparition, Bernadette had to keep her candle alight. The flame licked along her hand without burning it. Dr. Douzous witnessed this fact.

18th Apparition. Thursday 16th July: The Final Apparition.
Bernadette receives a mysterious call to the Grotto, but her way was blocked and closed off by a barrier. She thus, arrived across from the Grotto to the other side of the Gave. "I felt that I was in front of the Grotto, at the same distance as before, I saw only the Blessed Virgin.