Bernadette and Lourdes Godden and Gerald Vann

and Gerald Vann

his translation-and-commentary collaborations with Monsignor Knox also include The Gospel Story and It Is Paul Who Writes

the glory as of the Father’s only Son

and equally witty and insightful reflections on “Going On Pilgrimage

providing answers to questions about faith and reason

Bernadette and Lourdes Godden and Gerald VannBy Michel de Saint Pierre The French town of Lourdes lies at the bottom of a valley as though in the palm of a hand. In this simple place, on Thursday, February 11, 1858, in the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous beheld a vision of a Lady in white. Over the next four months, this Lady would appear to Bernadette a total of eighteen times, assuring her of happiness not in this world but the next;