BERNADETTE
Bernadette: translation
Bernadette f
French: feminine diminutive of BERNARD (SEE Bernard). Its use in Britain and Ireland is almost exclusively confined to Roman Catholics;, who take it in honour of St Bernadette Soubirous (1844–79), a French peasant girl who had visions of the Virgin Mary and uncovered a spring near Lourdes where miraculous cures are still sought.
Variant: Bernardette.
Cognate: Italian: Bernardetta.