Bernadette and Lourdes Leen In a healthy society

In a healthy society

(Matthew 25:21)

holds Henri Ghéon

who give up their love for another and hope of marriage in order to minister to their persecuted neighbors

Bernadette and Lourdes Leen In a healthy societyBy 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;