Lourdes: body and spirit in the secular age
Religion, Christianity
Human-narrated audio
Summary
A history of the world's most important Catholic shrine, visited by 5 million pilgrims each year. Well over a century after the peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous claimed to see the Virgin Mary in a Pyrenean grotto, the Lourdes pilgrimage continues… to excite both hostility and enthusiasm. The text explains how the small French town became the greatest of all Christian healing shrines despite unpromising beginnings. 1999.