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Article: Review - Books: The girl who saved France's soul Eamon Duffy on the wide-ranging influence of St Bernadette's visions at Lourdes
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- March 28, 1999
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Lourdes: Body and Spirit
in the Secular Age
by Ruth Harris
Penguin/Allen Lane, pounds 25, 473 pp
ON 11 FEBRUARY, 1858 a 14-year-old shepherdess named Bernadette
Soubirous, scavenging for firewood near a riverside cave outside the
small Pyrenean town of Lourdes, was attracted by a mysterious light
within the grotto. She saw there a smiling child dressed in white.
Neither spoke, but both prayed on their rosary beads till the
vision,
whom Bernadette would call Aquero, the heavenly one, disappeared.
This was the first of 18 apparitions, in the course of which
Bernadette would scratch in the swampy ground a hole which was to
become the source of the greatest healing spring in the history of ...
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