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Black and white portrait of Bernadette Soubirous, a young woman wearing a striped scarf and a dark dress, with an inscription at the bottom indicating 'AUTHENTIC PORTRAIT OF BERNADETTE SOUBIROUS'. On the reverse, a biographical text summarizing her life in Lourdes, her apparitions, and her entry into the Institute of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers in 1866, where she died in 1879 without returning to Lourdes. Publisher: Phot. Courrier-Macon.