Saint Bernadette of Lourdes

By Bob Lord and Penny Lord

Saint Bernadette is the visionary of Lourdes, France. Bob and Penny Lord traveled to Lourdes and Nevers, France to bring you the life of Saint Bernadette. This ebook is a complete condensed version of her life in Lourdes and then Nevers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Journeys of Faith
• Release date: Sep 11, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452384900

Bob Lord

Bob and Penny Lord renowned Catholic Authors and hosts on EWTN. They are best known for their media on Miracles of the Eucharist and Many Faces of Mary. They have been dubbed experts on the Catholic Saints. They produced over 200 television programs for EWTN global television network and wrote over 25 books and hundreds of ebooks.

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Saint Bernadette of Lourdes

Bob and Penny Lord

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Copyright 2010 Bob and Penny Lord

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St. Bernadette of Lourdes

I cannot promise you happiness in this world, but in the next.

There are Saints among us whose greatest virtues have been their lifelong battles against their human nature. Those of us who are privileged to study their lives, have a tendency to ignore what we believe to be their shortcomings, in an effort to go directly to their source of sanctification. When we do this, we miss the teaching the Lord has to give us by the example of His suffering servant. We go for the dream, and miss the journey. The sanctification is in the journey.

St. Bernadette used to complain about the accounts she read on the Lives of the Saints, in that they all seemed too sugar coated. She said of the Saints, They were human beings with faults and weaknesses, like all of us. Mother Angelica once said, referring to the authors of lives of the Saints, They should all be given forty years each in purgatory, for making these Saints seem so perfect. Bernadette probably felt the same way.

To the little Saint of Lourdes, the many gifts she was given during her lifetime: one, that of beholding the presence of Mary, the Mother of God, eighteen times in the year 1858; another, her ecstasies during those Apparitions, were just that, gifts. She believed that these were aids from the good God to help her get through a sacrificial life amidst a barrage of attacks, and to suppress her own fiery inclination to fight those attacks. She prayed the gifts would offset her imperfections, which included a strong will, a fierce temper, and a stinging tongue. What she may never have known is how Our