St Bernadette 
Catholic Church
Glendalough

Welcome to the website for Saint Bernadette Catholic Church
located in Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia 

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Saint Bernadette Soubirous, also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, is best known for experiencing Marian apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto at Massabielle. These apparitions are said to have occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858, and the woman who appeared to her identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception".

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Saint Bernadette's visions were simple and focused on the need for prayer and penance. She explained that the vision had told her "to drink of the water of the spring, to wash in it and to eat the herb that grew there," as an act of penance. To everyone's surprise, the next day the grotto was no longer muddy but clear water flowed.

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After investigation, Church authorities confirmed the authenticity of the apparitions in 1862. In the 150 years since Soubirous dug up the spring, at least 69 cures have been verified by the Lourdes Medical Bureau as "inexplicable" – after what the Church claims are "extremely rigorous scientific and medical examinations" that failed to find any other explanation. More on Saint Bernadette can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Soubirous

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Our church was once zoned in the suburb of Glendalough (pronounced Glen-duh-lock) and still referred to as the Glendalough Parish. The church is located at:

49 Jugan Street, Mount Hawthorn WA 6016, Australia

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To contact the Parish priest or office, please call (08) 9444 6131 or
e-mail glendalough@perthcatholic.org.au​

Donations to support the church maintenance and operations can be made via Direct Debit:

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Account Name: St Bernadette Parish (Second Collection)

BSB: 086 006

Account number: 855775565

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Account Name: St Bernadette Parish Presbytery (First Collection)

BSB: 086 006

Account number: 551882687

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DIRECT DEBITS

Please arrange with your bank to have regular amounts to be paid into our accounts above.

Use your own name as a “reference”.

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The parish is ‘grateful and thankful’

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Additional information regarding this church and others located within the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth can be found on perthcatholic.org.au.