For example, I attended, in Minnesota, a Catholic high school called Lourdes, named for the village in the Pyrenees, in southern France, where, in 1858, Bernadette Soubirous experienced, at the age of fourteen, a series of Marian apparitions at a grotto beside a river not far from where she and her siblings and her parents, in reduced circumstances, lived in a one-room basement that had been formerly used as a jail.