Bernadette is not in the Bible. It is the French feminine form of Bernard, a Germanic name made from words meaning “bear” and “hard” or “brave.” Christians know it through Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the miller’s daughter whose reported visions of a lady at Lourdes in 1858 made the town a major place of Catholic pilgrimage. What does the name Bernadette mean? Bernard comes from the Old German elements bern, “bear,” and hart, “hard, firm, brave, hardy.” Bernadette adds the French…

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