SERVICES Services of the Sanctuary

The Sanctuary offers  :

  • Accommodation up to 200 people, from family rooms to single rooms with shower and sanitary facilities.
  • Catering facilities available to the public 7 days a week.
  • Pastoral and spiritual animation on request.
  • Chapel-oratories and places of meditation.
  • Equipped rooms including simultaneous translation booths.
  • Surrounding the house is a four-hectare park, in the centre of which is self-catering facility for groups, friends and families.
Carte localisation

The sanctuary A strong and important pilgrimage's location

Each year thousands of people from all over the world come on pilgrimage to Nevers to pray beside Saint Bernadette.

Coming to Nevers means coming to meet Bernadette Soubirous and be influenced by her and by the message she received in Lourdes and lived out in Nevers :

« Every human being is precious in the eyes of God ».

A team of employees and volunteers (lay people, priests, Sisters of Charity of Nevers), will welcome you to this Sanctuary and help you during your stay..

Icone visiteurs

200 000 visitors/year

Each year, nearly 200 000 pilgrims come to discover what was the life of  Bernadette Soubirous after the apparitions of Lourdes in 1858.

Icone acces facile

Easily accessible

Located just 2h30 from Paris and Lyon, the Sancturay is easily accessible by train, car, bus or plane.

CALENDAR

Events to come

All the year different animations are organised, seminars, commemorations, shows, festivals... Do not hesitate to read the program for the year.

Enfants et AdosGroupe Zachée

Wednesday 20 mar 2024 - 14h00

14H/15H00 Découverte de la parole de Dieu, bricolage, échanges pour les 4/14 ans.

Vivre le CarêmeJeudi de Carême

Thursday 21 mar 2024 - 16h30

De 16H30 à 18H Adoration silencieurse à la Chapelle

Vivre le CarêmeVendredi de Carême

Friday 22 mar 2024 - 18h00

18H Chemin de Croix à la chapelle du Noviciat.

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF bernadette Saint Bernadette Soubirous

All the year different animations are organised, seminars, commemorations, shows, festivals... Do not hesitate to read the program for the year.

Image boutique

Shop

We are happy to offer you a selection of articles which you can order and have sent to you by mail.

Go to the shop

TESTIMONIESVolunteers and visitors' testimonies

Photo journal

Newspaper

Three times per year, we publish the newspaper « journal de Bernadette » to inform you about the life in the Sanctuary, the events which have taken place as well as those which are to come.

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