Everyone was against her — except the Blessed Virgin Mary. The French state thought she was a disrupter ... Bernadette could have easily recanted her story of the beautiful woman at the grotto and led ...

who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary did prepare a worthy dwelling place for your Son, we humbly beseech you that as we contemplate the apparition of Our Lady in the Grotto ...

next to the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, for songs and prayers. So many souls yearning to be witnesses for hope, so many souls imbued with the belief that the Virgin Mary was lighting their way.

‘All generations will call me blessed': ‘The Church's devotion ... an ‘epitome of the whole Gospel,' express this devotion to the Virgin Mary." 1 1. CCC, 971. The internal quotes are from ...

Everyone was against her — except the Blessed Virgin Mary. The French state thought ... recanted her story of the beautiful woman at the grotto and led a peaceful life. She was, however ...