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A novelist records a five-day national pilgrimage to a famous healing shrine, presenting a broad cast of sick pilgrims, clergy, nurses, and local residents while interweaving smaller personal stories. He depicts processions, bathing at a grotto, hospital routines, trials of alleged visions, and the verification of reported cures, juxtaposing moments of genuine relief with unresolved illness. The narrative interrogates suffering, faith, and human credulity, suggesting that hope, medical error, communal hysteria, and the desire for consolation combine to produce claims of miracles. The work balances observational reportage, moral skepticism, and compassion for desperate individuals drawn to a last resort.

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Title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete

Author: Émile Zola

Translator: Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Release date: July 1, 2005 [eBook #8516]
Most recently updated: March 6, 2022

Language: English

Credits: Dagny and David Widger

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LOURDES

Of the Three Cities

By Émile Zola

Translated By Ernest A. Vizetelly


CONTENTS


LOURDES

PREFACE


THE FIRST DAY

I. PILGRIMS AND PATIENTS

II. PIERRE AND MARIE

III. POITIERS

IV. MIRACLES

V. BERNADETTE


THE SECOND DAY

I. THE TRAIN ARRIVES

II. HOSPITAL AND GROTTO

III. FOUNTAIN AND PISCINA

IV. VERIFICATION

V. BERNADETTE’S TRIALS


THE THIRD DAY

I. BED AND BOARD

II. THE “ORDINARY.”

III. THE NIGHT PROCESSION

IV. THE VIGIL

V. THE TWO VICTIMS


THE FOURTH DAY

I. THE BITTERNESS OP DEATH

II. THE SERVICE AT THE GROTTO

III. MARIE’S CURE

IV. TRIUMPH—DESPAIR

V. CRADLE AND GRAVE


THE FIFTH DAY

I. EGOTISM AND LOVE

II. PLEASANT HOURS

III. DEPARTURE

IV. MARIE’S VOW

V. THE DEATH OF BERNADETTE—THE NEW RELIGION