We see Bernadette live, we follow her, we hear her speak, from her birth to her death: a thousand features taken on the spot and often unknown.

Bernadette Soubirous, the little seer from Lourdes, ascended to heaven on April 16, 1879.

But who was she really? Poor among the poor, humble among the humble, she entered the history of the church on February 11, 1858, the day when the Virgin Mary appeared to her as the Immaculate Conception in the Grotto of Lourdes. On her departure from Lourdes, some time after the apparitions, she will become Sister Marie-Bernard at the convent of Saint Gildard in Nevers where she will be a nurse and then sick offering her pain to the Lord, which will lead her to holiness.

The result of twenty years of research and analysis, this book by the great specialist Father Laurentin, scientifically established the history of Lourdes and Bernadette in all its aspects. The result is tasty. It is communicated without any pageantry or comments. It reveals the hidden side of Bernadette.

This new edition of Bernadette’s Life is published in a single volume where the two volumes of the original edition keep their own pagination.

I. Lourdes. Childhood, apparitions, testimony

II. Nevers. Religious Life, Secret, Death and Glory