Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age (Compass) by Ruth Harris

Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age (Compass)

Ruth Harris

496 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1858 near the tiny French town of Lourdes, a young peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous witnessed the Virgin Mary in a grotto. Since then Lourdes has become the most visited shrine in the world, hosting nearly five million pilgrims each year...

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