Sister Wendy Beckett’s reflections on St Bernadette (from our correspondence, which I am editing).
I asked Sr. Wendy if she had ever been to Lourdes: "I don't want to travel. My love for Bernadette has nothing to do with Lourdes. Although spiritually Lourdes was the greatest event of her life, in spiritual terms a transforming encounter, in worldly terms it was a disaster...
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Apr 17, 2021 · 10:41 AM UTC

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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
The gap between the “worldly” version of Bernadette and the more mysterious and fascinating truth of Bernadette (of which, I presume, Sister Wendy speaks) is made clear in Ruth Harris, “Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age”...
As soon as I find the right publisher.
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