From "Letter to Father Gondrand "Santa Maria Bernadette Soubirous
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asked the two girls if they saw something, but they said no, in fact I questioned what I had to reveal them. Then said he saw a lady in white, but I did not know who he was. The felt, however, not mention it. Then also urged me not to come back to that place, but I refused.
We therefore returned on Sunday, feeling inwardly be called. That Lady I spoke only the third time and asked me if I wanted to go to her for a fortnight. I answered yes. She added that I had to call the priests because they did build a chapel there, and then commanded me to drink from the fountain. Since I did not see any, I went to the river Gave, but she waved me who did not speak of the river and showed me her finger a fountain. Recatami there, I found if not a little muddy water. I pulled my hand, but I could not take anything, so I started digging and I could finally get a bit 'of water, I threw away the three times, but the fourth I could drink it. The vision then disappeared and I went back home.
For fifteen days, however, went back there and the Lord appeared to me every day, except on a Monday and a Friday, telling me again to tell the priests that they did build a chapel there, to go to the fountain to wash and pray for the conversion of sinners. I asked repeatedly who he was, but she smiled sweetly. In the end, having raised arms and lifting her eyes, told me to be the Immaculate Conception.
In the space of those fifteen days I also revealed three secrets, which absolutely forbade me to disclose to anyone, which I have faithfully observed until now.
. Letter to P. Gondrand, a. 1861, cf. A. Ravier, The holy scrits de Berne r those , Paris, 1961, pp. 53-59.
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