Bernadette of Lourdes: The Only Complete Account of Her Life Ever Published Translated by J. H. Gregory (HQ802)

Published 1915: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original blue decorated cloth with gilt titles on the cover and spine. 263 very clean and bright pages, slight separation showing on inner hinges could be readdressed with some glue, text block or covers not affected. Boards slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. Overall a very clean and well preserved original scarce first edition. (HQ802)

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"Bernadette Soubrious was chosen out of all the earth to proclaim the Immaculate Conception to the world by the Immaculate Conception herself, and with this solemn proclamation of the Immaculate Conception she is indissolubly linked throughout all future ages. But the Immaculate Conception is the sole national Patron of the American Church. Moreover, America is the only large nation - as far as my information goes, the only nation - on earth that possesses the Immaculate Conception for its National Patron. In a very particular sense, therefore, America is bound to the Immaculate Conception as no other nation on earth. But the ties which bind the American Church to the Immaculate Conception bind it necessarily to Bernadette, whom the Immaculate Conception so uniquely linked to herself and chose for her evangelist and apostle." - Cardinal James Gibbons (+ 1834-1921) St. Alphonsus writes: "a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery." Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: "There rises to Our lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world because of scandals!' (Matthew 18:7). Woe to those who consciously and deliberately spread corruption-in novels, newspapers, magazines, theaters, films, in a world of immodesty!" Google Books...