Lourdes: Healing and Rebirth Luciana Frassati including a Novena for a

including a Novena for a Special Favor

"the language of the angels

The rhythm of the poetry is tuned to a child's ear

along with quotes from the saints that complement and give life to the reflections in Part I

Lourdes: Healing and Rebirth Luciana Frassati including a Novena for aIn 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared eighteen times to a poor teenage girl in rural France, Bernadette Soubirous. When authorities questioned her sincerity, Bernadette, at the Ladys word, dug a hole in the middle of a field while the crowd jeered, and within a day, a full spring began to flow from that very spot. Since then, these waters have given miraculous healingsboth spiritual and physicalto many thousands of pilgrims in the little village