Bernadette and Lourdes Leen holds Henri Ghéon

holds Henri Ghéon

and the persistent

Josef Pieper harmonizes philosophy and theology to show the relationship between God and man

By Mark Twain

Bernadette and Lourdes Leen holds Henri GhéonBy Michel de Saint Pierre The French town of Lourdes lies at the bottom of a valley as though in the palm of a hand. In this simple place, on Thursday, February 11, 1858, in the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous beheld a vision of a Lady in white. Over the next four months, this Lady would appear to Bernadette a total of eighteen times, assuring her of happiness not in this world but the next;