But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C.S. Lewis

Bernadette Soubirous

Bernadette Soubirous

BERNADETTE SOUBIROUS

French peasant girl who saw an apparition in 1858, who later identified herself as Mary, “the Immaculate Conception.” This was the subject of much unbelief, but eventually was verified by Rome. Bernadette became a nun and was canonized.