Author: MARNHAM, PATRICK
Title: Lourdes - a Modern Pilgrimage
Description: London, Heinemann. 1980, First. (ISBN: 0434450456). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xi + 225 pages. 16 illustrations. Lourdes, a small town in the French Pyrenees, is the destination every year of over 3 million pilgrims, mostly between May and October. It has 400 hotels employing 4,000 guest workers: the Ciergerie Lourdaise produces a ton of candles every day; and the post office handles six and a half million postcards a year. All this has come about because here in 1858 a frail 14 year old girl, Bernadette Soubirous, experienced a series of visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and discovered a spring of clear water in a cave. An absorbing and objective study of all aspects of Lourdes. R1. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, Bernadette Soubirous, Visions of Blessed Virgin Mary, Miracles 0434450456


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