Bernadette and Lourdes Undset forerunner of the Enlightenment

forerunner of the Enlightenment

is the living presence of Jesus Christ Our Lord within it

O King of night and day

The sacrifice that we denied

Bernadette and Lourdes Undset forerunner of the EnlightenmentBy 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;