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By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: Here we resume with the third part of our series on the reported Apparitions of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. These are taken from a 1904 book by Bernard St John – who, in fact, personally knew Estelle Faguette, the visionary at Pellevoisin. For more about [...]

 By Bernard St John   Introductory Remarks: Here we continue with the sixth part of our account taken from Bernard St John’s out-of-print 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. The beginning of the series can be found here. We will also note that we think Bernard St John’s text is a fine [...]

By Bernard St John Introductory Remarks: Here we continue with the third part of our account taken from Bernard St John’s out-of-print 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. The beginning of the series can be found here. We will also note that we think Bernard St John’s text is a fine [...]

By Bernard St John   Introductory Remarks: We continue serialising this highly detailed, well-researched narrative of the Apparition of Our Lady of Pontmain. This is taken from Bernard St John’s 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. Please see the first part here – not simply for the beginning of the account, [...]

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: We continue serialising this highly detailed, well-researched narrative of the Apparition of Our Lady of Pontmain. This is taken from Bernard St John’s 1904 book The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. Please see the first part here – not simply for the beginning of the [...]

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: We begin serialising this highly detailed, well-researched narrative of the Apparition of Our Lady of Pontmain. This is taken from Bernard St John’s 1904 book The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. But first, let us note that this is the last and least known of [...]

By Bernard St John     Introductory Remarks: Here we continue with the second part of our account taken from Bernard St John’s 1904 book, The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces. As we said in the first part, Saint Bernadette’s story is so well known that there would seem little need for the [...]

Introductory Remarks:  We now take up the continued story of Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, in a third part of our account, taken from The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces by Bernard St John. (The first part of this series is here.) Now, when this book was published in 1904, the secrets as given by [...]

Introductory Remarks Having recently posted on the appearance of Our Lady in the Rue du Bac in 1830 and La Salette, we turn to the incredible story of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes. Like the previous accounts, this is also taken from The Blessed Virgin in the Nineteenth Century: Apparitions, Revelations, Graces - a 1904 book by Bernard [...]