In the extreme south-west of France, separated from its southern counterpart by imposing barrier of the Pyrenees Mountains —which is more open here as if to encourage communication between the two regions— the Northern Basque Country (...)
On Thursday February 11, 1858, at Massabielle Grotto, a “lady dressed in white” appeared to Bernadette Soubirous. It was on March 25, 1858, during the sixteenth apparition that “Aquerò” –‘that’ in patois– signed her message: “I am the Immaculate Conception,” she said to Bernadette. (...)