The first of 18 apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to 14-year-old St. Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, happened on this day in history, Feb. 11, 1858.

From 1974: The Our Lady of Lourdes School, a downtown educational institution for decades, was being torn down. It opened in 1906 but had been closed since 1972, “when it was consolidated with ...