For the purport of her message and her visitation, in addition to whatever it meant for Bernadette personally, as a soul of such blessedness that it was chosen for a communication from Our Lady, was a request for prayer and penance, the forming of a procession leading to the grotto, and the building of a chapel on the site where water had bubbled up into a spring. And not, in other words, the revealing of her own identity, even though it is true that the person of Our Lady is inextricable from the meaning of this event.