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"In 1858, near the tiny French town of Lourdes in the foothills of the Pyrenees, a young peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous witnessed the Virgin Mary in a grotto. Since then, every year millions of pilgrims from all over the world have traveled there to take part in the procession to a shrine whose waters have made it a synonym for healing." "Historian Ruth Harris traces the history of this mass phenomenon, placing Lourdes at the center of nineteenth-century debates on religion, science, an
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- Author
- Ruth Harris, Ruth Harris
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140263275
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Christian, Memoir, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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