Book description
This is the classic work that tells the true story surrounding the miraculous visions of St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France in 1858. Werfel, a highly respected anti-Nazi writer from Vienna, became a Jewish refugee who barely escaped death in 1940, and wrote this moving story to fulfill a promiseā¦
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1 author picked The Song of Bernadette as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I adored the film version of this book when I was about ten, and I still remember the saintly Bernadette limping around the monastery, refusing treatment for her deathly disease.Ā The novelās author was a Czech Jew who left 1930s Vienna and found refuge in the town of Lourdes, where Bernadette Soubirous saw the Virgin in 1858.
As thanks, he wrote this tearjerker about Bernadette and the beautiful lady who appeared to her eighteen times in a grotto outside town.Ā Word got around, and both religious and civic officials challenged Bernadetteās story, mostly because she was uneducated and came fromā¦
From Lisa's list on illuminating books about visions of the Virgin Mary.
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