In a little Gallic town about 70 years ago there lived a girl. Her first name was Bernadette; her last name is immaterial. The name of the town is Lourdes.
Lourdes had huddled around the Pyrenees Mountains for nine centuries without any exciting circumstances to identify itself when Bernadette one day discovered the spirit of the Virgin Mary secluded in a cave at the town's edge, across the river, under the cliff.
From the cave oozed a spring of sluggish brown water. It was found to have miraculous healing powers. Bernadette had more and more...
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