Bernadette and Lourdes Leen who give up their love

who give up their love for another and hope of marriage in order to minister to their persecuted neighbors

and the persistent

holds Henri Ghéon

(Matthew 25:21)

In a healthy society

Bernadette and Lourdes Leen who give up their loveBy Michel de Saint Pierre The French town of Lourdes lies at the bottom of a valley as though in the palm of a hand. In this simple place, on Thursday, February 11, 1858, in the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous beheld a vision of a Lady in white. Over the next four months, this Lady would appear to Bernadette a total of eighteen times, assuring her of happiness not in this world but the next;