"I read this book after finishing it and I was surprised myself to have composed it because I feel that there is something there that does not come from me and that is more than me" Henri Lasserre

This is the account of a contemporary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous.

Witness but also miraculous in 1862, Henri Lassale wrote this book in 1868, ten years after the first apparition.

Translated into 80 languages and sold more than a million copies in the 19th century, this account is recognized as the basic work on Lourdes and continues to be an authority on the subject.

This book contributed to Pius IX’s recognition of the reality of the apparitions and to the development of the pilgrimage to Lourdes.

As a real tool of conversion, this work is also a formidable tool of apostolate.