The real Saint Bernadette did eat plants and said "the lady" had asked her to; while no one has identified them as saxifrage, the location of the Lourdes Grotto, in a huge outcropping in the Pyrenees, makes it plausible.
The real Saint Bernadette did eat plants and said "the lady" had asked her to. Several devotional writers identified the plants as saxifrage, and the location of the Lourdes Grotto, in a huge outcropping in the Pyrenees, makes it plausible.