| Description |
ix, 335 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part I Lourdes: The Making Of A Shrine -- 1 Like Any Town: Lourdes Before the Apparitions 11 -- 2 An Ignorant Young Girl: The Childhood of Bernadette, -- 1844-1858 1 35 -- 3 The Fortnight: Daily Visions from 18 February to -- 4 March 1858 77 -- 4 So Many Extraordinary Things: Miracles in -- Lourdes, 1858 102 -- 5 The Spirit of Resistance: Lourdes, May to September 1858 127 -- 6 For the Sake of Religious Enlightenment: -- The Episcopal Mandate, 1858-1866 149 -- 7 'What Will You Become?': The Education of Bernadette, -- 1860-1866 167 -- Part Ii Nevers: The Afterlife Of A Visionary -- 8 'I Have Come Here to Hide Myself': -- Life in the Novitiate, 1866-1867 203 -- 9 'Watching Over the Sentiments of My Heart': -- Religious Life at St Gildard 232 -- 10 Silence of the Self: Bernadette as a Sister of Nevers 250 -- 11 Atrocious Sufferings: The Deathbed, 1875-1879 275 -- Conclusion 312 -- Bibliography 321 |
| Analysis |
Bernadette, Saint, 1844-1879 |
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Christian saints - France - Lourdes - Biography |
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Christian women saints - France - Lourdes - Biography |
| Notes |
"A Continuum imprint" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references( pages 321-329) and index |
| Subject |
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles.
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Bernadette, Saint, 1844-1879.
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles -- France -- Lourdes.
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Christian saints -- France -- Lourdes -- Biography.
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Christian women saints -- France -- Lourdes -- Biography.
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| SUBJECT |
Lourdes (France) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50053128 -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0860123375 hardback |
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0860123383 paperback |
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