Saint Bernadette Speaks - Book 1
Author: Marie-Josée Thibault
Publisher: Abba Books LLC
Published: 2023-07-05
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Author: Marie-Josée Thibault
Publisher: Abba Books LLC
Published: 2023-07-05
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Author: René Laurentin
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780819811547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFather Ren Laurentin, one of the preeminent Marian theologians of our time, has conducted extensive research for over twenty years on the apparitions at Lourdes that forever changed Bernadette Soubirous' life. The culmination of his work is contained within this masterpiece factual account that reads like a novel. Translated from French to English for the first time, this fascinating biography covers the entire life of the visionary and messenger of the Immaculate Conception, accompanied by over 100 photographs.
Author: Francis Trochu
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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patricia A. Mceachern
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2010-12-10
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1681490102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the story of the apparitions of Our Lady to Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes in 1858 are well known, relatively few people are familiar with the saint's own spiritual insights and profound holiness. For the first time in English, this book presents a wide selection of St. Bernadette's thoughts, advice, sayings, and prayers through the touching words of her spiritual diary, notes, and letters to friends and family. After receiving the visions of Our Lady at the grotto in Lourdes, Bernadette eventually became a religious sister as a member of the Sisters of Charity. She lived a life of simplicity, charity, suffering and deep holiness, dying at the age of 35. When she was canonized a saint, her body was found to be incorrupt. In these beautiful writings of St. Bernadette, we learn the secrets of her holiness and happiness. Though she suffered greatly throughout her life, the heroic response of this humble, self-effacing nun transformed excruciating suffering into spiritual fruitfulness. Her letters and writings serve as a model for others passing through their own trials. Her writings reveal and intimate and profound love for God and neighbor. Anyone pursuing a deeper spiritual life will appreciate knowing Bernadette as she truly was, and the inspiring spiritual works of wisdom she offers to us all.
Author: Francois Vayne
Publisher: St. Francis of Assisi Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764804939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese inspirational treasures from five of the giants of Christian spirituality weave each of the spiritual master's own words into 15 days of prayer, conversation, and deepening interaction and revelation.Written from a perspective designed to emulate a personal encounter, each work transports readers to the locale of a retreat or spiritual conference where they may benefit from the personal company of the respective spiritual leader. By providing readers with an inside look at each revered figure, this collection fosters heightened understanding and creative interpretation, and transcends the typical "second-person" approach of most spiritual literature.
Author: René Laurentin
Publisher: Darton Longman and Todd
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780232522938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compulsive and authoritative classic biography on the true story of a poor Pyrenean girl whose life made Lourdes what it is today.
Author: Thérèse Taylor
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 2008-11-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780826420855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBernadette of Lourdes: her life, death and visions is the first ever scholarly biography of Bernadette Soubirous, either in French or in English. It draws upon many testimonies and archival sources that have never previously been published. Therese Taylor explains who Bernadette was, and how she lived and died but takes no position on whether or not her visions were genuine. This story begins in Bernadette's native country of the Pyrenees, a mountain region haunted by tales of fairies, witches and miraculous groves and springs. It follows Bernadette's astonishing life story, from her family circle, through her years of fame, to her retirement at the convent of St Gildard at Nevers. Her difficult relationships with the historians of Lourdes and her lengthy terminal illness are also considered. This biography places Bernadette in the context of her time. She was born into a volatile family and her parent's lives were blighted by economic failure and alcoholism. At the age of fourteen Bernadette was an illiterate child-servant, who suddenly experienced a series of visions of a White Lady in the Grotto of Massabielle. Townspeople, government officials, clergy and journalists were all drawn in, and sought out Bernadette in order to assess her story. A chain of events was set off which made her one of the most famous women in France. Bernadette has to be understood not only in religious terms, but also with reference to themes such as tourism, commercialism, mass-representation and the exploitation of female celebrities.
Author: Albert Bessières
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hubert Wolf
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-01-13
Total Pages: 557
ISBN-13: 0385351925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the Church’s Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of Sant’Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent’s beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations, Maria Luisa began to lead and coerce her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies. She entered into a highly eroticized relationship with a young theologian known as Padre Peters—urging him to dispense upon her, in the privacy and sanctity of the confessional box, what the two of them referred to as the “special blessing.” What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical significance, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail. Offering a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and drawing on written testimony and original documents, Professor Wolf—Germany’s leading scholar of the Catholic Church, and among the very first scholars to be granted access to the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the office of the Inquisition—tells the incredible story of how one woman was able to perpetrate deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Church itself.
Author: Marianne Lorraine Trouvé
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780819849397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of stories that provide hope, encouragement, and inspiration from the Blessed Mother for those experiencing difficult times.