Title : Life of Bernadette - René Laurentin - book

Summary :

Saint Bernadette of Lourdes died on April 16, 1879. This is her centenary, 20 years after the apparitions. Since then, the seer's importance has continued to grow in the pilgrimage. Who is Bernadette? The daughter of a ruined miller whose extreme poverty led to him being imprisoned, a shepherdess, a seer, an astonishing witness: little David, victorious over several Goliaths ganged up against her, a nun, a nurse who ended up in "the employment of the sick" by assuming her passion in a moving way. Much has been mythologized around all this. The truth is more beautiful than myths. Bernadette is simply a saint. She reveals the holiness of the poor, received from a good source. This little-known holiness was in her well before the apparitions. After 20 years of study and 25 volumes of authoritative scientific publications, Father René Laurentin, professor at the Catholic University, Doctor of Letters, but also a journalist, wrote a transparent and simple life like Bernadette, according to the instruction she gave to historians on her deathbed: "The simplest thing we write will be the best. By trying to embellish things, we distort them." "Nothing romanticized... a lively style, a story... alive, I hope that many Christians will read this book: rightly, the book of the centenary." (Preface by Mgr Donze, Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes).

• EAN : 9782220021577
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