Long queues to pray before the relics of St Bernadette which are currently touring Britain testify to the power of her message of humility and obedience. Yet she was once at the centre of a religious and political storm that shook France.
29 September 2022, The Tablet
The paradoxes of Bernadette
St Bernadette grew up in extreme poverty, in a remote mountain settlement, in a period of intermittent cholera and famine.
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