Bernadette of Lourdes

By Paul De Marco

Bernadette, a poor uneducated girl from Lourdes, claimed to have seen apparitions of a lady at a rock face in 1858. On 25th February, she said that the lady had asked her to scratch at the ground, and soon a spring appeared there, and within days there were reports of miraculous healings at the grotto. After a lengthy investigation, the Church pronounced that the faithful were justified in believing that Our Lady had appeared 18 times at Lourdes. The medical team that investigated the cures stated that the phenomena they'd observed were 'beyond the comprehension of the human mind' and when Bernadette's remains were exhumed 46 years after her death, her body was still undecayed, prompting the physician to declare that this was not a natural phenomenon. To date, 70 miracles have been verified and over 200 million people have visited the site since the Apparitions of 1858. This book describes the life of Bernadette and her road to sainthood, as well as Our Lady's message to the world, and to us as individuals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0244500347
• ISBN13: 9780244500344
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Very detailed, and an easy read!

I wanted to read bout the apparitions of Lourdes and this book was perfect. Easy to read, tells the story of Bernadette and her family, and then starts going over the apparitions of the Virgin Mary. I was not familiar with the events as I am a new convert to the Catholic faith, so everything was new to me. I am a believer on these apparitions when I read about how Bernadette told the priests the name Mary gave her and how it was impossible for this girl of very humble and education level to know a title that was given to the Mother of God in the Vatican few years prior; the Immaculate Conception.