| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xxi, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Town, region, family -- The apparitions and their interpretation -- After-visions: cultists and seers -- The bishop, the nanny and the journalist: Lourdes emerges on the national scene -- Bernadette -- The battle of the books -- The assumption and the foundations of pilgrimage -- The past, the present and the rituals of modern pilgrimage -- The cures -- Religion and science in the third republic. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-457) and index. |
| Subject |
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles -- France -- Lourdes.
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Bernadette, Saint, 1844-1879.
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Lourdes (France)
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| ISBN |
0670879053 |
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