The ladies of Lourdes

Author / Author: Pep Coll

Published: 02/2008

Editorial:Planeta Spain Group

Cams: 320

ISBN: 9788484371441 Category:

Description

Les señoretes de Lourdes is a novel about the life of Bernardette Soubirous, the girl that year 1858 he assured that he had seen a young lady in a white dress in a cave near the village. From the very beginning, the residents of Lourdes interpreted the apparition differently: who was a fairy from those who lived in the cave, or that it was the spirit of a blessed woman who had died a few months ago, or that the ancestral demons of the mountain had awakened. He even joked that the supposed ghost was the pharmacist's wife who had dated her lover… The one who didn't theorize was the only seer, a humble asthmatic teenager who referred to the apparition as There. Until the last visions, when the thousands of pilgrims who flocked to the cave had no stopping, the girl did not accept, at the suggestion of a priest of Lourdes, who was the Mother of God. In reality, that spring, what Bernadette's visions awakened were illusions and disappointments, envy and hatred, the ambition of money and power. Pep Coll reconstructs the origins of the most important sanctuary in Catholicism, vigorously portrays each of the historical characters involved in the apparitions and brings us closer to the terrible drama of a sick girl who wanted to hide from the crowds and couldn't get out. Not even in life, of mortar.

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