Yvon bourret biography

A FINE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SEERESS OF LOURDES

Father René Laurentin () was a French theologian and Mariologist. He wrote in the Prologue of this book, “Bernadette Soubirous, the seer of Lourdes, died at the age of thirty-five on April 16, , twenty-one years after the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to her in She died in the convent of Satin Gildard in Nevers, France, after living the life of a nun for thirteen years. She alone had seen the Virgin Mary in the grotto. It is thanks to this virgin alonepoor, uneducated and disdainedthat the shrine of Lourdes was established and is now visited by four million visitors and pilgrims each year… And yet she id the most secret of the saints, as many like to point out… they are thinking of the private, hidden quality of her holiness, a holiness devoid of notable deeds, great writings, and human triumphs. Hers is a holiness of the poor. The secret of this holiness escaped Bernadette’s own mistress of novices… [who] d

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