-Caveat Lector-
from the net-
(Literary Review iv '99, reviewing Ruth HARRIS, Lourdes, Penguin, �UK25)
Everyone should be able to make his own mind up about whether St Bernadette
of Lourdes saw eighteen apparitions of The Virgin Mary in 1858? -- No, this
has not been the view of the Catholic Church! In a new book, it turns out
that the figure seen by Bernadette Soubirous, the daughter of a Pyrenees
miller, was "a tiny, smiling child of her own age -- fourteen." It took
years of work by the Church to convert this apparition into the adult and
reasonably maternal Virgin Mary of Catholic folklore. Bernadette herself
protested all the way along the line against the Church's distortion of her
story -- and was finally confined to a strict regime in a closed nunnery to
effect her silence. To this day, visitors to Lourdes are not told the truth.
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