Saint Bernadette Soubirous by Abbe Francois Trochu

Excellent book on St Bernadette Soubirous, which is a two-fold story, that of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France in 1858, as well as that of the 14-year-old peasant girl - raised in dire poverty and unable to read - to who Our Lady appeared. But more, it is also the story of St Bernadette's hidden life as a seemingly ordinary nun in her convent at Nevers, where she reached such holiness that after her death, God saw fit to preserve her body incorrupt - as it remains to this day! Beautifully illustrated with 69 photographs, including lovely photos of St. Bernadette's incorrupt body (she died in 1879). Our Lady told her, "I do not promise to make you happy in this world, but in the next."