Add this copy of The Happening at Lourdes: the Sociology of the Grotto to cart. $7.50, very good condition, Sold by Taos Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Fe, NM, UNITED STATES, published 1968 by Simon & Schuster.
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Very Good in Good + jacket. First print copy in very good or better condition in good plus dust jacket, dj show small taped tear along top edge on back and ordinary mild shelf wear and light edgewear, not price clipped, text tight clean unmarked, perhaps unread, 323 pages.
Add this copy of The Happening at Lourdes: the Sociology of the Grotto to cart. $35.00, good condition, Sold by Kubik Fine Books Ltd rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dayton, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Simon & Schuster.
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Blue cloth with dustjacket. Plates. 323p. Dustjacket in good condition with only few signs of shelf wear. Book is in very good condition, clean, tight, and well-cared-for. Lourdes is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in south-western France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for the Château fort de Lourdes, a fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its centre. In 1858 Lourdes rose to prominence in France and abroad due to the Marian apparitions seen by the peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous, who was later canonized. Shortly thereafter the city became one of the world's most important sites of pilgrimage and religious tourism. Today Lourdes hosts around six million visitors every year from all corners of the world. This constant stream of pilgrims and tourists transformed quiet Lourdes into the second most important center of tourism in France, second only to Paris, and the third most important site of international Catholic pilgrimage after Rome and the Holy Land. This book is Neame's effort to "[strip] away the myths to reproduce the original event as simply as it originally happened-through the words of Bernadette herself, who told what she saw and what she heard: 'Que soy er'Immaculada Councepciou..."
