Three French Saints - Bernadette Soubirous

[9781856076593]

Part of O'Floinn's trilogy this book describes the life of Bernadette Soubirous, who at fourteen years of age, on a cold morning in Febuary 1858, set out with her younger sister and another girl to gather firewood at a rocky hill called Massabielle on the outskirts of Lourdes in south-west France. On that day and on seventeen subsequent occasions, she saw a vision of a lady in a cave in the side of the hill. Nobody believed her, least of all the parish priest to whom she came with the message that she was to build a church at Massabielle. The One Who Saw Visions : Bernadette Soubirous recounts the story of this extraordinary life in very readable and simple language, giving a background to the times and then a full account of those aspects of this womans life which gave rise to her being canonised by the church.