Translations:Saint Bernadette/8/en
Mary visited the child eighteen times at the grotto. Bernadette was told to bring a lighted candle on her visits and to pray for sinners. At the eighth visit, Mary exhorted her with the statement, “Penitence! Penitence! Penitence!” On the ninth visit, Mary told Bernadette to “drink from the fountain and bathe in it.”[1] Bernadette was puzzled, since there was no source of water in the grotto. She began to dig at the ground with her fingers. In moments a bubbling pool was formed from which Bernadette drank and washed her face.
- ↑ Frances Parkinson Keyes, “Bernadette and the Beautiful Lady,” in A Woman Clothed with the Sun: Eight Great Appearances of Our Lady in Modern Times, ed. John J. Delaney (Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, Doubleday and Co., 1961), p. 133.