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00:00:00Bernadette said, I fear nothing because I have always told the truth.
00:00:12It is to this truth that we have remained faithful, the truth concerning the people
00:00:16and places, truth in the deeds and words, truth of the souls.
00:00:21Nothing but the truth, even when it seems unbelievable.
00:00:26In 1866, the grotto at Lourdes had changed considerably over the past eight years, since
00:00:30that day when for the first time appeared the lady in white with the blue sash.
00:00:35Now Bernadette is twenty-two, and she can no longer recognize her grotto.
00:00:39She has only one desire, to flee from the curiosity of the crowds and seek refuge in
00:00:43a convent.
00:00:44You will come back to see us?
00:00:47Never.
00:00:49And never again did Bernadette return to Lourdes.
00:00:53Finally, on the morning of the 4th of July, Bernadette went to Tarbes, where she boarded
00:00:57a train for Nevers by way of Bordeaux.
00:01:53Blessed Virgin, I never imagined it would be like this.
00:02:23Never imagined it would be so difficult.
00:02:24Bernadette, aren't you thirsty?
00:02:25Thank you, my mother.
00:02:26Don't be sad, Bernadette.
00:02:27This is no time for self-pity.
00:02:28We're almost there.
00:02:29No, my mother.
00:02:30Marie, are you thirsty?
00:02:31No, but thanks, my mother.
00:02:32And you, my sister?
00:02:33No, my sister.
00:02:35Forgive me, Lord, for being so weak.
00:03:01I'm afraid that I won't be strong enough.
00:03:04Never, never. End of the line. All passengers disembark, please.
00:03:11Leontine, help the gentleman take down your trunk.
00:03:14Yes, my mother.
00:03:15Marie, your umbrella.
00:03:17Bernadette, are you dreaming?
00:03:20No, my mother.
00:03:31Mother General is feeling ill. She asked Mother Superior to welcome you.
00:04:00I've already told her.
00:04:03My children, now you are all going to meet Mother Marie-Thérèse Vauzot.
00:04:09She is superior of the novices. It is to her that you will address yourselves.
00:04:15Try to honor all the instruction you have received.
00:04:21Welcome, my sisters. I trust you've had a good journey?
00:04:24A bit too long, but splendid.
00:04:26I'd never traveled by train before. It's miraculous.
00:04:30I suppose these young ladies are quite tired.
00:04:32No, my mother.
00:04:33My sister, I'd like to present Leontine Mouret.
00:04:37She's only 17, but she's been an excellent student at our institution.
00:04:42Marie, la Rotiste de Manière, is 24.
00:04:45Her family life has somewhat disturbed her, but her postulate has not suffered.
00:04:50Bernadette Soubirous, a slow learner, my sister.
00:04:53At 22, she's just able to read and write.
00:04:57She made her first communion at 15.
00:04:59Since then, she has found it difficult to keep up with the class.
00:05:02I fear you can't ask her too much, my sister.
00:05:06Only fortunately, Bernadette is a willingness itself.
00:05:09And she catches on quickly.
00:05:12Sister Cloris will now accompany you to the refectory, where your dinner is all ready.
00:05:16And when you are finished, you will all go directly to the dormitory.
00:05:19You'll spend the night there.
00:05:20In the morning, they'll receive their habits as postulates.
00:05:34Are you the one who's come from Lourdes?
00:05:36Yes, my mother. With Leontine Mouret.
00:05:39What can you do, child?
00:05:41In fact, there isn't much I can do.
00:05:43Tomorrow morning, if you aren't too fatigued.
00:05:45If you like, you could wash dishes after everyone's eaten.
00:05:48Please, yes, my mother.
00:06:00Lazybones, don't you know how late it is?
00:06:02It's six o'clock.
00:06:04At night?
00:06:07Six in the morning, dumbbell.
00:06:13Domenicate.
00:06:16Domenicate.
00:06:18Domenicate.
00:06:27There, back at the grotto, we prayed together, remember?
00:06:31And you took religious vows?
00:06:33It's to your credit. But still, only a novice.
00:06:37Domenicate.
00:06:39Here, I'm Sister Philomen.
00:06:42We wake at five, and then mass is at 6.15.
00:06:50All right, wake up.
00:06:53Don't worry. Our instructions are to let the newcomers sleep in.
00:06:56You get an hour more.
00:06:59You're all welcome, my children.
00:07:01Have you all slept well?
00:07:03Yes.
00:07:04I hope you've all recuperated after your journey.
00:07:07For tomorrow, you will obey the rules of the community.
00:07:10Sister Emilienne and Sister Philomen are in charge of your instruction.
00:07:15I chose these sisters because they're Pyrenees girls, just as you are.
00:07:18They're your great-grandchildren.
00:07:20They're your great-grandchildren.
00:07:22They're your great-grandchildren.
00:07:24I chose these sisters because they're Pyrenees girls, just as you are.
00:07:27They're your guardian angels, so pay close attention to them.
00:07:30Listen and do as they say.
00:07:33At 7.10, you will take breakfast in the refectory.
00:07:37And now, if you'd like to all go and wash.
00:07:41All quite clear?
00:07:42Yes, Mother.
00:07:44Oh, just one thing.
00:07:46At midday, after the noon meal,
00:07:48you will go and join the other sisters in the novitiate room.
00:07:51Bernadette Soubirous as well.
00:07:53You're Bernadette?
00:07:54Yes, my mother.
00:07:55Bernadette Soubirous will tell us about her apparitions.
00:07:59Again?
00:08:00I assure you, this telling will be the only one.
00:08:12If you please, let's be quiet, please.
00:08:17My sisters, I've given a promise.
00:08:20Finally, the moment you've so looked forward to.
00:08:25Bernadette Soubirous, here before us,
00:08:28will relate her experience, her vision,
00:08:30granted to her by extraordinary heavenly favour.
00:08:35And once she has completed it,
00:08:37she'll say no more, the subject is closed.
00:08:40You accept her solemn undertaking,
00:08:41never to speak of it again, even among yourselves.
00:08:44I charge you as a matter of conscience.
00:08:47Now, open your eyes and your ears.
00:08:52Bernadette, my child, will you please rise?
00:08:55Come to the centre so we may all see and hear.
00:09:01Go on.
00:09:06We know it was in 1858, February the 11th,
00:09:09while gathering pieces of brushwood
00:09:12to burn in her family hearth,
00:09:14Bernadette saw appear within the grotto at Massabielle
00:09:18a lady completely in white and wearing a sash of blue,
00:09:21with a yellow rose on each foot as well.
00:09:25How did you know she was the Blessed Virgin?
00:09:28Well, that's the point.
00:09:30Who she was, I didn't know.
00:09:32Yes, all right.
00:09:33Exactly when were you sure she was the Holy Virgin?
00:09:37Just let the certainty of seeing the Blessed Virgin
00:09:39be your pillar of strength.
00:09:40Your vision is there before you.
00:09:41Albeit with no vainglorious pride in your soul.
00:09:45I never earned any right to this grace.
00:09:50Come in, Sister Doïté.
00:09:52Let us welcome you here among us.
00:09:55Sister Doïté is very old.
00:09:57She no longer sees, but she can hear somewhat,
00:09:59on condition you speak loudly.
00:10:08I repeat my question.
00:10:10When, Bernadette, were you sure that the lady in white
00:10:13was indeed the Blessed Virgin?
00:10:16At a certain time, Monsieur du Curé proposed that
00:10:19when I spoke to her, I ask her name.
00:10:21I asked for it.
00:10:22Her reply to me was,
00:10:24Que sois la Immaculate Conception.
00:10:27I am the Immaculate Conception.
00:10:29It's marvelous.
00:10:31She spoke in patois?
00:10:33To me, yes.
00:10:34Because that way I understood everything she said.
00:10:37What name did you use to call this virgin
00:10:39before having been convinced she was the virgin?
00:10:41It wasn't me.
00:10:43Whenever she wanted, she would be there.
00:10:46When it began, we'd speak together.
00:10:49I would call her Akiaro.
00:10:53In patois, it means that thing.
00:10:58It was before I knew her name.
00:11:00Where's the harm in that?
00:11:01Oh, harm? No harm of any kind.
00:11:03She spoke in a way that somebody would speak to another person.
00:11:07She was always terribly polite.
00:11:10It was our third day, I remember,
00:11:12and she said,
00:11:14I have a request.
00:11:15I wonder if you would have the kindness
00:11:16to return to this place another two weeks.
00:11:19She said,
00:11:20Would I have the kindness?
00:11:22Would I?
00:11:24Nobody ever spoke to me in that way.
00:11:27You can guess how I wanted to see her,
00:11:29the way she said,
00:11:31even when she told me that
00:11:33I would not be content in this world,
00:11:35but in the next.
00:11:36I could hear it again.
00:11:37I just said I was very glad I wanted to see her again.
00:11:41Oh, I quite understand.
00:11:43It seemed everybody was sure I shouldn't return to the grotto.
00:11:46Papa and Mama,
00:11:49the curé,
00:11:50the commissaire of police,
00:11:52even the imperial prosecutor.
00:11:55And so, as I saw it,
00:11:57either I would disobey all these people,
00:12:00or else I'd disobey Akiaro,
00:12:02and so I chose.
00:12:05Oh, she was never sad.
00:12:07She was one time.
00:12:08She asked me to pray for the world's sinners.
00:12:12And then she clasped her hands, eyes firmly closed,
00:12:16and told me that
00:12:18I must kiss the earth in penance for the world's sinners.
00:12:22Of course, that's what I did.
00:12:24My poor Aunt Lucy just fainted when I performed the act.
00:12:27Apparently it was the first of March,
00:12:29and it was the tenth time the apparition occurred.
00:12:31There was then purported to be the first miraculous cure.
00:12:34Can you tell us about that?
00:12:35About what? I never saw a miracle.
00:12:38And yet I have read that on that day
00:12:40you cured a blind girl by laying your hands on her.
00:12:43Not me. I had nothing to do with that.
00:12:53Have you seen Bernadette?
00:12:54No, Mother.
00:13:01Bernadette Subaru. Do you know where she is?
00:13:03Yes, Mother. She's at the grotto.
00:13:05Will you go and tell her it's the hour for recreation and not praying?
00:13:09There's a time for everything.
00:13:29The Mother Superior sent me to say
00:13:30that you have to obey the rules of our community.
00:13:32There are hours for recreation during the day.
00:13:34Noon to one o'clock, and in the evening, seven to eight o'clock.
00:13:40She reminds you, doesn't she?
00:13:42This one is the least ugly, but she wasn't at all like that.
00:13:45She is our Lady of the Waters.
00:13:47When he sees the Virgin in heaven,
00:13:48the artist won't say he's proud of it.
00:13:53You use tobacco?
00:13:56Yes, Dr. Duzout told me to take it for my asthma.
00:14:02Do you skip rope during recreation?
00:14:04No, our recreations are joyous.
00:14:06Only skipping rope, we don't do that.
00:14:08That's too bad.
00:14:09I'm used to holding the rope for others. I enjoy that.
00:14:32The Mother Superior sent me to say
00:14:34that you have to obey the rules of our community.
00:14:36There are hours for recreation during the day.
00:14:38Noon to one o'clock, and in the evening, seven to eight o'clock.
00:14:40She reminds you, doesn't she?
00:14:42This one is the least ugly, but she wasn't at all like that.
00:14:44She is our Lady of the Waters.
00:14:46When he sees the Virgin in heaven,
00:14:48the artist won't say he's proud of it.
00:14:50Do you skip rope during recreation?
00:14:52No, our recreations are joyous.
00:14:54Only skipping rope, we don't do that.
00:14:56That's too bad.
00:14:58I'm used to holding the rope for others.
00:15:00May the Lord who has filled your hearts
00:15:02with his sacred vocation.
00:15:04Each of you will receive a new name.
00:15:08This will remind you of your renunciation of this world,
00:15:12and that you belong entirely to Jesus Christ,
00:15:15whom you have chosen as husband.
00:15:18Sister Marie Bernard.
00:15:20Sister Marie Bernard.
00:15:26May the Lord invest you with a new man
00:15:29who is created by God in justice,
00:15:32in the sanctity of truth.
00:15:34You will have no difficulty in understanding the reasons
00:16:00why we fear the presence within Sister Marie-Bernard
00:16:02of the sin of pride.
00:16:04This explains why we have decided
00:16:06to refuse any and all visits that can't be justified.
00:16:11But how could we show such cruelty
00:16:14and deny to our illustrious donor
00:16:15an encounter with our celebrated visionary?
00:16:18One says that the child's modesty is charming.
00:16:20That's right, Monseigneur.
00:16:22Sister Marie-Bernard has no affectation.
00:16:25The reason why I came was to hide here.
00:16:28At Lourdes, I was given a promise
00:16:29that at the convent, nobody'd ask any questions.
00:16:32Consider, Bernadette, that Monseigneur de Mérode
00:16:34is the confessor of the Pope.
00:16:37The Pope wouldn't be guilty of committing many sins.
00:16:40There's also Monseigneur de Marguerite.
00:16:42For you especially, he came a long way
00:16:44to see you assume your habit.
00:16:47The Count and Countess de Chirini-Lafon
00:16:49are benefactors to our convent.
00:16:51They would like to get mentioned in your prayers.
00:16:54Well, I, too, need people's prayers.
00:16:57They pray for my soul, and I'll do the same.
00:17:00Should I remind you, child, of your oath this morning?
00:17:02Along with your habit, you swore an oath of obedience, too.
00:17:05So if you please, you must obey.
00:17:15You wear your veil too far out in front.
00:17:18To me, it's my little chapel.
00:17:20I feel better this way.
00:17:21Remember that Don de Lavergne,
00:17:23the holy founder of our order,
00:17:24gave us obedience as an absolute rule.
00:17:27Talk, talk, talk.
00:17:29I am all alone with God.
00:17:32He understands me.
00:17:35These pitiful bishops.
00:17:37They'd do better staying home.
00:17:42I have too much pride, my mother.
00:17:44You are right.
00:17:45But being here, I will try to learn,
00:17:48for I know pride is a sin.
00:17:50Splendid, my child.
00:17:55Would you be pleased to see your grotto again?
00:17:58It's no longer my grotto, Monseigneur.
00:18:01My mission is finished at Lourdes.
00:18:03What would I do there?
00:18:05Now I'm like everyone else there.
00:18:08Aren't you afraid that you'll forget your visions?
00:18:11I'll forget?
00:18:13Ah, no, Monseigneur.
00:18:15I'll forget.
00:18:17I'll forget.
00:18:19I'll forget.
00:18:21I'll forget.
00:18:23Monseigneur, they're in here.
00:18:26And did the Holy Virgin smile at your child?
00:18:30Yes, she did, quite a lot.
00:18:32There was one day when I remember where she laughed.
00:18:36She really did.
00:18:38It was when I mentioned the request of M. Lecuret
00:18:41if she would arrange an early flowering with the roses
00:18:44in mid-February.
00:18:46She didn't say anything.
00:18:49Only I was thinking,
00:18:51there she was, there in front of my eyes.
00:18:54To me it was enough proof.
00:18:56My sister, there is in this envelope
00:18:59the modest sum of a hundred francs
00:19:01that we would like to donate, the Countess and I,
00:19:03to Notre-Dame de Lourdes.
00:19:05Would you be kind enough, my sister,
00:19:07to convey it directly to the parish priest?
00:19:09We desire earnestly that it pass through your hands.
00:19:12Ah, why?
00:19:13We thought it possibly would then give our gesture
00:19:17well, an additional priceless impact.
00:19:21No, I will not accept it.
00:19:23I have no wish to send your donation.
00:19:27That's fine, my child. You may leave now.
00:19:33And so, the lady in white said,
00:19:36go and tell the priest a procession should come here
00:19:40and a chapel built.
00:19:43I go find the curé, Monsieur Paramel.
00:19:46Only he gets angry.
00:19:48A chapel?
00:19:49He asked me then.
00:19:50Have you the money?
00:19:52And I say, no, Monsieur le curé, not one soup.
00:19:56You know what he told me then?
00:19:59Well, me too.
00:20:01It didn't begin too well.
00:20:03My little brother saw Lady in white.
00:20:06Not all ladies in white are the Holy Virgin.
00:20:09Did yours go flying through the air?
00:20:11Like a bird, did she fly away?
00:20:13No, mine didn't fly away at all.
00:20:15You said at each foot a rose was put.
00:20:17Ah, pretty roses, yellow ones.
00:20:19How was it they didn't fall off?
00:20:22A miracle.
00:20:23Cobblers, aren't there any in heaven?
00:20:25I know there's one.
00:20:26Papa's there.
00:20:27He was bad. He beat your mother.
00:20:29He's not in heaven.
00:20:32They're so happy it's a joy to see them like that.
00:20:35I think quite a change has taken place in the orphanage.
00:20:38There's always a wondrous change
00:20:40when Sister Mary Bernard's here.
00:20:43Your novices will soon disperse all over France.
00:20:46Would you be in favor of Sister Mary Bernard's coming here?
00:20:50She wouldn't be unhappy.
00:20:52No doubt, my sister.
00:20:55The veritable vocation of Bernadette is surely charity.
00:21:01I suppose it's here she'd have good occasion to exercise it.
00:21:10It's nothing.
00:21:12I'm cold, don't worry.
00:21:14When I see the Virgin,
00:21:16I'd better ask her for just one thing.
00:21:19Some cough syrup.
00:21:25Now you see, my sister, why I cannot give you Sister Mary by now.
00:21:40Thank you, my child.
00:21:42Our dear orphans will always remember your visit.
00:21:47Come back to see us often.
00:21:49Come.
00:22:10I pray to the Virgin that she protect you all.
00:22:14But you don't know our name.
00:22:16The Holy Virgin knows.
00:22:20Come.
00:22:31My dear child,
00:22:33I know what you wanted at the orphanage.
00:22:36I would grant your wish.
00:22:39I know, my mother.
00:22:41I know I'd be happy there at the orphanage.
00:22:45I'm not educated. I couldn't be a teacher.
00:22:48But I could tell stories.
00:22:51I suppose God has chosen other ways.
00:22:55I have to accept that.
00:22:57His will...
00:23:08I know what you're going through.
00:23:11For more than ten years, my poor child, I've had your suffering.
00:23:15I know that it won't be long now.
00:23:35Now we'll change your polders.
00:23:44Ah!
00:23:53There we are.
00:23:54Just four hours more.
00:23:55It's going to burn your skin, but you can stand it.
00:23:57Don't worry about it, Sister.
00:23:59Now I'm like a cat. I'm toughened to pain.
00:24:02Now rest a bit.
00:24:03Try to keep your vesicatory in place as long as possible.
00:24:07All this is good for heaven.
00:24:15It's Annette Basset.
00:24:16She got very sick the day after she arrived.
00:24:18Only this time, they won't operate. She's going home.
00:24:28I see no alternative.
00:24:31I'm afraid I can't do it.
00:24:33I'm afraid I can't do it.
00:24:35I'm afraid I can't do it.
00:24:37I'm afraid I can't do it.
00:24:39I'm afraid I can't do it.
00:24:41I'm afraid I can't do it.
00:24:43I'm afraid I can't do it.
00:25:02No, she won't come and see me.
00:25:10It's like I scare her.
00:25:12After all, I'm sick too.
00:25:23My mother, I beg you.
00:25:25Come and see me.
00:25:27Talk to me.
00:25:28I love you.
00:25:30I'm your child too.
00:25:35There. What did I say?
00:25:37Didn't even look at me. Not one glance.
00:25:40What did I do to...
00:25:46Well, lazybones.
00:25:48Still loafing, are we?
00:25:50It's my work I'm doing.
00:25:52Oh? What work?
00:25:54My work as a patient.
00:25:56Would you mind granting a request?
00:25:59No, my sister. On the contrary.
00:26:02It concerns Annette Basset, the postulant lying over there.
00:26:05Yes, my sister.
00:26:06The poor child's very shocked and sad.
00:26:08Mother General agrees entirely with Dr. Sancier.
00:26:10They've decided she'll have to go, and she is so unhappy.
00:26:13Would you try to cheer her a little?
00:26:17I'll try.
00:26:18Don't give up hope that one day your superior will come and embrace you.
00:26:22She wants to, terribly.
00:26:25No, that much I wouldn't ask.
00:26:27All our personal requests.
00:26:29The Blessed Lord never pays attention to.
00:26:38Weep no more, mademoiselle.
00:26:40You will take your vows as a sister. God wants it.
00:26:43You will succeed.
00:26:45Yes, but...
00:26:46But what?
00:26:47What?
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00:27:07Yes, but the doctor said I'll go away.
00:27:09I'm too sick to stay here.
00:27:11Where are you from?
00:27:12Le Gouthière, in the Puy du Dôme.
00:27:15You are going to go into another congregation.
00:27:19Because the doctor is mistaken.
00:27:21You have many more years to live.
00:27:26And when you die, it'll be on a Sunday,
00:27:28in a small and very poor convent.
00:27:32My sister!
00:27:33What are you doing out of bed?
00:27:35Visiting my flock.
00:27:50Listen to me!
00:27:51All of you!
00:27:53Sister Marie-Bernard is terribly sick.
00:27:55She's now in the infirmary and it's impossible to see her.
00:27:58If you wait here, you're wasting your time.
00:28:00At least let us in the chapel!
00:28:03Let us in the chapel!
00:28:05No!
00:28:06The convent must retain its calm and its composure.
00:28:10Go away, all of you! Go home!
00:28:18How can we make them understand?
00:28:20Our sister's not an animal in a circus
00:28:22for the entertainment of the crowd.
00:28:24Should we resist this infatuation of the crowd?
00:28:28Or just accept it as preordained?
00:28:31My sister Marie-Bernard, I remind you, isn't a saint.
00:28:33My mother, she's only an ordinary sister.
00:28:35If you recall, you said that.
00:28:37Yes, but in her expressions, all we revere...
00:28:40simplicity, innocence, union with God.
00:28:45It's a Bernadette worthy of the theater.
00:28:50Not one sign of vanity in this photograph.
00:28:55To me, she inspires a certain sadness.
00:28:59There's Bernadette.
00:29:01Just waiting for something she needs.
00:29:05No doubt what she thought she'd find here.
00:29:09What's bothering you?
00:29:11My mother, exactly what's bothering you.
00:29:13Her apparitions.
00:29:15As you say, her apparitions.
00:29:18I realize the extraordinary qualities in the child
00:29:21and truly I want with all my heart to treat her with affection and respect.
00:29:25But whatever I will, I'm confronted with it.
00:29:28I do not believe in apparitions.
00:29:30You do realize the visions of Bernadette...
00:29:34were marked with the seal of approbation by the church.
00:29:42For you, my mother, the rest is for sister Marie-Bernard.
00:29:46139 letters, 19 more today.
00:29:49In her condition, she isn't going to be able to read all that.
00:29:52Oh, I don't agree.
00:29:54She once said, I can't read all the letters, but what counts is the spirit they contain.
00:29:58Sister Marie-Bernard must learn to be ignored in this world.
00:30:01Our Mother Superior is not very taken with the things of Lord.
00:30:05All right, let the Holy Virgin decide to appear to us someplace in the world.
00:30:09But why, then, should she appear to a peasant who is crude and ignorant
00:30:12instead of choosing a virtuous, educated sister?
00:30:14Would you have found Joan of Arc too impolite?
00:30:17And this morning, I received this letter.
00:30:20You know, she was the postulate we had to send away because she was sick.
00:30:24She radiates happiness.
00:30:26Received into the congregation of St. Joseph de Cluny.
00:30:29I'll read it.
00:30:31Tell dear sister Marie-Bernard.
00:30:33Her prediction was accurate.
00:30:35I am now also a sister in a small and very poor convent.
00:30:38My present name is Sister Bertilly.
00:30:51She will not survive the night.
00:30:57Thursday, October 25th, 1866.
00:31:00Barely four months after entering the convent,
00:31:03here she is on the point of death.
00:31:06She is a young woman,
00:31:08but she has a strong will to live.
00:31:11She is a young woman,
00:31:13but she has a strong will to live.
00:31:16After entering the convent,
00:31:18here she is on the point of death.
00:31:37Pardon us, Monseigneur, for asking you to come at such an hour.
00:31:40Sister Marie-Bernard is no better.
00:31:43It is our most cherished desire that our sister profess before dying.
00:31:46But of course, as you are aware,
00:31:48your dispensation is indispensable.
00:31:51I will allow no one else to receive the profession of Sister Marie-Bernard.
00:31:55Where is she?
00:31:57In the infirmary.
00:31:59Sister Lucy here will show you the way.
00:32:07You're going to die, my child.
00:32:09And I understand you desire to profess.
00:32:13I am here to receive your profession.
00:32:16You will bear the official title,
00:32:19Bride of Jesus Christ.
00:32:24The formula...
00:32:27I... I won't have the strength...
00:32:30to say all of the words.
00:32:33That poses no difficulty.
00:32:35I will pronounce all the words for you.
00:32:38It is enough for you to reply,
00:32:40Yes, so be it.
00:32:43Now I, Sister Marie-Bernard Soubirous,
00:32:46accept and promise God to accomplish
00:32:49and keep all the vows of poverty, of chastity,
00:32:52obedience and charity,
00:32:54in the way they are all explained in the Book of Rules.
00:33:00So be it.
00:33:11Sister Marie-Bernard,
00:33:13don't forget me in your prayers when in heaven, child.
00:33:18I'll forget no one.
00:33:27Shall I stay here right to the end?
00:33:29No, it is for me to close Sister Marie-Bernard's eyes.
00:33:32I fear that it will not be a long wait.
00:33:40Thank you.
00:34:11Was the reason for giving profession tonight
00:34:14because you imagined that tonight I would die?
00:34:19Oh, well.
00:34:21Ah, but I won't die tonight.
00:34:26You what?
00:34:28You inform me you won't die tonight,
00:34:30but you never said anything.
00:34:32You let us send for Monsignor in the middle of the night,
00:34:35disrupted everything, you're a stupid silly child.
00:34:37Now listen, Marie-Bernard,
00:34:39tomorrow, if you're still alive,
00:34:41I'll take off your head at once, your veil of profession,
00:34:44and you'll return at once to the novitiate.
00:34:48Whatever you want, my dear mother.
00:34:55It's impossible, it can't be.
00:34:58You're alive, you haven't died.
00:35:02However did you manage that?
00:35:05The blessed Lord just wasn't ready to call me yet.
00:35:09I went all the way up to the door,
00:35:12and what he said is,
00:35:14it's too soon, you may return.
00:35:18She's still very weak. Please, you must stay calm.
00:35:21No silly questions, in groups of eight, please.
00:35:23And no more than five minutes. One, two, three, four, five.
00:35:28My little saint, here you are.
00:35:32You all right?
00:35:34Your little saint's much better now.
00:35:36Our papa didn't want me at all.
00:35:38Praise God, hallelujah. And, Salma, you're well again.
00:35:41I'm still too bad to go to heaven, I guess.
00:35:43A fine thing, scaring us like that.
00:35:45We did nine novenas in a day for you to get well.
00:35:48And you're looking at the result. I did my profession.
00:35:51Only it didn't count, Mother Superior said, because you didn't die.
00:35:53In the interim, I have it, and they won't take it away.
00:35:57Now I'm in the congregation. Nobody can make me leave here.
00:36:04The Moulin Lacadé, where Louise Soubirous, Bernadette's mother, is about to die.
00:36:35Bless me, my mother.
00:36:52Enter.
00:37:04It certainly wasn't long that I was professed.
00:37:07You never were, in reality.
00:37:09Returning to health annulls the profession in articulo mortis.
00:37:13Then if I were dead, I'd be professed?
00:37:16Yes, you would be.
00:37:18I really love my veil.
00:37:20The muslin veil can never be enough to merit going to heaven.
00:37:24No, to go to heaven, the path is straight and narrow,
00:37:27a steep slope that only with pain you will climb.
00:37:30Your veil will return when you have merited it.
00:37:33For now is a time of trial, Sister Marie-Bernard.
00:37:37You won't go too rapidly, my mother.
00:37:39My child, now we can wrap your knuckles.
00:37:43I hope you won't wrap them too hard, Mother.
00:37:48One year later, October 30th, 1867.
00:37:51What do you wish, my daughter?
00:37:53Speak your mind before this assembly.
00:37:57Monseigneur, I do supplicate to be received and heard for profession.
00:38:02Into the Sisters of Charity and into Christian instruction.
00:38:07Is it with free will and for the greater glory of God,
00:38:10with no earthly purpose, that you want to espouse this estate?
00:38:15Yes, Monseigneur.
00:38:17And my only intention is to accomplish what God wants me to do.
00:38:22May God, who has placed this good intention within you,
00:38:26grant you the grace to persevere and accomplish it.
00:38:29So be it.
00:38:33Sister Angélique Camot,
00:38:37you are assigned to the National Institution for the Young Hard of Hearing.
00:38:42You leave tomorrow.
00:38:52Sister Camille Laotice,
00:38:55you are being sent to our community of Miranda and the Gers.
00:38:59You will leave day after tomorrow.
00:39:09Sister Charles Remillon,
00:39:12after Sunday Mass, you will go to our convent in Seignelay,
00:39:17in the Yonne.
00:39:20Why was there no call for Sister Marie Bénard?
00:39:24Was there no letter of obedience for her?
00:39:27It's not possible, Monseigneur.
00:39:29A stupid girl could for nothing.
00:39:32She will certainly be useless wherever she goes.
00:39:35Sister Marie Bénard, come here, child.
00:39:38It's truly a fact, my child. You are good for nothing.
00:39:42It's a fact, Monseigneur.
00:39:44Well then, my poor little one,
00:39:46then what shall we do with you?
00:39:48I told you already, at Lourdes.
00:39:50And you said it would be best if I was sent here to be in the community.
00:39:54You said it would be best if I was sent to be with you.
00:39:57I will be with you.
00:39:59I will be with you.
00:40:01I will be with you.
00:40:03I will be with you.
00:40:05It would be best if I was sent here to be in the community.
00:40:08You said it didn't matter, and so I was sent here.
00:40:11If you wish, Monseigneur, we might retain Sister Marie Bénard with us.
00:40:15She would remain here and work at various menial tasks in the infirmary,
00:40:19in cleaning up or making the infusions.
00:40:23Well, since she's always ill anyway, it's just for sure to be.
00:40:27And what have you to say, Sister Marie Bénard?
00:40:30I shall try, Monseigneur.
00:40:32Then, Sister Marie Bénard, we're going to send you no place.
00:40:36I give to you as your employment, then, prayer.
00:40:43How much do you want to earth charming chaperones?
00:40:49How much do you want to earth to watch over the sheep?
00:40:55Is that a song from your regent?
00:40:58It isn't much trouble carrying a song, so I brought one along.
00:41:02It reminds me of home.
00:41:03Are you homesick?
00:41:04Here I have a better chance of going to heaven.
00:41:10If it is too much or too dear,
00:41:14I will then just take two wooden shoes.
00:41:19Do anything to be worthy of heaven.
00:41:22Suffer anything for the glory of God.
00:41:25May's will be done.
00:41:29Sister Marie Bénard, you'll not be canonized.
00:41:32No, why?
00:41:33Because you practiced that.
00:41:35Saint Vincent de Paul failed almost to get a halo on a can of tobacco.
00:41:39Do you take tobacco, Sister Chantal?
00:41:41What an idea!
00:41:43Well, then, you'll get canonized.
00:41:46Thank you, Sister Marie Bénard.
00:41:48Thank you, Sister Marie Bénard.
00:41:50Thank you, Sister Marie Bénard.
00:41:52Thank you, Sister Marie Bénard.
00:41:54Thank you, Sister Marie Bénard.
00:41:56And you'll get canonized.
00:42:00One day, our Lord appeared to Saint Teresa
00:42:04in the form of a little child radiating brilliant light.
00:42:08Sister Marie Bénard, even though you have professed,
00:42:12not only do you find it difficult to follow novitiate instruction,
00:42:15but in addition, you must arrive late.
00:42:18Will you please pardon it, my mother?
00:42:20It's just that I was delayed by my work.
00:42:23What work?
00:42:24I wash the toilets, Mother.
00:42:29Go on, Sister Stanislas.
00:42:31Listen to this, Sister Marie Bénard, and try to learn from it.
00:42:35When she saw the infant Jesus who appeared,
00:42:38Saint Teresa had only one feeling,
00:42:40to pick the child up and do whatever the child required.
00:42:44But at that instant, she heard the monastery bells start to ring,
00:42:48calling all the sisters to chapel.
00:42:51And so at once, without hesitating,
00:42:53Saint Teresa put the child down on the ground
00:42:55and returned directly to her duties in the community.
00:42:58This is only a pious legend, as are perhaps almost all apparitions.
00:43:03But it's a remarkable example of obedience.
00:43:06My children, the question is this.
00:43:09What would you have done in Saint Teresa's place?
00:43:13Who will answer?
00:43:15Sister Marie Bénard, any ideas on this?
00:43:19Well, I wouldn't have done what Saint Teresa did.
00:43:23Instead of putting the infant down upon the ground,
00:43:26I'd have held him in my arm
00:43:29and gone into the chapel still holding him.
00:43:32A tiny baby doesn't weigh a lot.
00:43:35Sister Julienne, will you open the book on Our Lady of Lourdes
00:43:38at the chapter we were reading?
00:43:40Sister Marie Bénard, this reading is not for your ears.
00:43:44We'll wait until you leave.
00:43:48Before you go, please kiss the ground.
00:44:19I was looking for you just now.
00:44:21I just passed by the infirmary, and some patients need your care.
00:44:26I'm the one who's much sicker.
00:44:30It's the words of Mother Superior that have put you in this state.
00:44:34She's always after me.
00:44:36She's always after me.
00:44:38She's always after me.
00:44:40She's always after me.
00:44:42She's always after me.
00:44:44She's always after me.
00:44:46She's always after me. Always.
00:44:49Mother is trying to point the way to perfection before you.
00:44:53And the Holy Virgin is the one who sent her.
00:44:56The Virgin made it clear you won't be content in this world,
00:44:59only in the other one.
00:45:03When you are hurt by anyone,
00:45:05repeat this and keep repeating.
00:45:08Pass on. Pass on, you creature.
00:45:11The Lord is mine still.
00:45:13God to me is sufficient.
00:45:15Repeat it.
00:45:17The Lord is mine still.
00:45:19God to me is sufficient.
00:45:21Good, my child.
00:45:23Will you return to your work now?
00:45:32A little more, my big little one. It's all for the Lord.
00:45:35Have to suffer some for God. He suffered for us.
00:45:39Remember, when the cataplasm's cold, give a call.
00:45:45You wanted to confide, they said.
00:45:47My sister, I would so like you to pray so I could get well.
00:45:50Yes, certainly.
00:45:52I will even make a nirvana.
00:45:54But you will not be cured of what you have.
00:45:57Only, it isn't going to bring about your death.
00:46:00It will bring you suffering.
00:46:03Have to work very hard to make it into heaven.
00:46:07My sister, did the Holy Virgin tell you that?
00:46:11Sister, you are too curious.
00:46:16My sister, I finished sweeping.
00:46:24Sweeping, that what you call it?
00:46:26And this table wasn't dusted.
00:46:28I've polished the brass balls on the beds.
00:46:32They're polished, that's right.
00:46:34But the blessed Lord also looks underneath.
00:46:37In all places, my child.
00:46:40The Lord is mine still.
00:46:42God to me is sufficient.
00:47:03Where are you going?
00:47:05I'm going to pray.
00:47:07I'll give you a hand.
00:47:09Sister Emily chose me, and do you know why?
00:47:12Because, in Lord, we were together.
00:47:14Yes, Bernadette.
00:47:16What can I do to help you now?
00:47:18You can start by helping me into my bed right now.
00:47:21Do you feel bad?
00:47:23Standing up, I do.
00:47:25Oh, Bernadette.
00:47:27It's all right.
00:47:29It's all right.
00:47:31It's all right.
00:47:33It's all right.
00:47:35Standing up, I do.
00:47:37But better when I lie down.
00:47:58Pardon me for disturbing you, sister.
00:48:00My name is Fanny Paquet.
00:48:02My husband's an upholsterer in La Verre, rue d'Horizon.
00:48:05One day, my husband's aunt mentioned that in the convent,
00:48:07there was a very pious sister,
00:48:09and she cured a child who wasn't able to walk, and...
00:48:12Is it possible that you're that sister?
00:48:14No, madame.
00:48:16I came here on account of my boy, Ferdinand.
00:48:18He's two years and six months.
00:48:20He's always been sick.
00:48:22Never even been able to stand.
00:48:24We tried everything.
00:48:26Dr. Fisher already told me it's hopeless.
00:48:29I only hope that...
00:48:32The person said I should wait here, and pretty soon the sister would come.
00:48:35And who was it who said that?
00:48:37A sister, but she wasn't young.
00:48:39She told me who she was, but I'm not sure I forget.
00:48:42Sister Marie-Thérèse Wazoo.
00:48:44Yes, that was it.
00:48:46Can I take the boy?
00:48:48It's you, then.
00:48:50Is he baptized?
00:48:52Why, of course.
00:48:54Will you come this way?
00:49:02Come.
00:49:10Pray with me, good mother.
00:49:33Thank you, my mother.
00:49:39What are you thanking me for?
00:49:41The boy who was sick.
00:49:43So weak he was unable to stand.
00:49:45And I believe that you sent the child to me.
00:49:48Yes, well?
00:49:50I prayed to the Virgin. I prayed that he'd stand.
00:49:53I truly believe that she heard.
00:49:56That's good news, my sister, but you surely made a mistake.
00:50:00No, I had no part in this.
00:50:02Don't find it surprising when you go to the infirmary.
00:50:05You won't find your helper, Sister Alexandrine.
00:50:07I've assigned Sister Casimir in her place.
00:50:10But why?
00:50:12Old friends in Lourdes and working together.
00:50:14Before long, it's more gossip than work.
00:50:16Sister Casimir shall prove an excellent assistant.
00:50:19But with Alexandrine, I spoke patois.
00:50:22No harm in that.
00:50:23You will learn that a good sister will have to bear in her time more crosses than one.
00:50:31What feeling, my dear sister?
00:50:33It's easy to see your affection for our mother superior.
00:50:36It's quite a natural reaction, my dear sister.
00:50:39I'm repenting it now.
00:50:41But there it is and what's done is done.
00:50:54Now what's this? I give you only a drop and I get a whole fountain?
00:50:58What's that? What is it?
00:51:00They're chapped.
00:51:01I'm ashamed when I see a pair of hands like that.
00:51:05All right, I have something that's good for them.
00:51:13You put honey?
00:51:14Yes.
00:51:15And you're not allowed to lick your hands.
00:51:20My sister, quickly, Sister Martha Zills, who just passed out.
00:51:22I'm coming.
00:51:23You can do it alone.
00:51:24A light hand.
00:51:25A light coating. Very gently. Don't rub.
00:51:27You understand?
00:51:30Now if the principal nurse becomes ill, it will be all we need.
00:51:44Sister Marie Bernard?
00:51:47Come closer, if you please.
00:51:50Come closer, if you please.
00:51:55My dear child, Sister Martha, for a while, will be staying with her family.
00:52:01We have decided to replace her as principal nurse.
00:52:04Unanimously, we consider the one most apt to be her successor is the assistant nurse.
00:52:12I have to remind you, my mother, that I am good for nothing.
00:52:16The esteemed Dr. Saint-Cyr tells us another story.
00:52:20Apparently, you are a pharmacist without compare.
00:52:30The war between France and Germany was coming to an end in the month of September,
00:52:34with the capitulation of the French army at Sedan.
00:52:37The Germans had penetrated to the limits of the département.
00:52:40The ambulance stationed at the convent since hostilities had begun
00:52:43is ordered to join the retreating forces.
00:52:46The garde mobile take up positions to oppose the invader
00:52:49and the mother general decides to send the novices to the south
00:52:53and the others return to their families.
00:53:10Ah!
00:53:16Ah!
00:53:25Ah!
00:53:40Ah!
00:53:50My child, the Chevalier Gounod de Mousseau wants to ask you a question.
00:53:55In this difficult time our country finds herself,
00:53:58Germans are at our portals and probably Nevers will be occupied.
00:54:04Now, the mobile guard is in our garden. You have surely seen the cannons.
00:54:08Yes, my mother.
00:54:09Monsieur le Chevalier, say what you have to say.
00:54:12My sister, a rumor has spread through the diocese
00:54:15that the Holy Virgin has once more appeared to you
00:54:17and the Virgin made revelations, important ones,
00:54:20revelations that concern the war.
00:54:22What do you say?
00:54:24Some also believe you've omission,
00:54:26which the Holy Virgin gave you in sacred trust for the government.
00:54:31I explain rumors of this sort have no basis in truth.
00:54:34You have spoken the truth, my mother.
00:54:36Then since Lourdes you've not experienced any other visions?
00:54:39Not one.
00:54:40And you've not been told any revelations concerning the future of France?
00:54:44None at all, monsieur.
00:54:46And so the Holy Virgin never spoke of anything?
00:54:49Yes, monsieur, but never things of this world.
00:54:53The Prussians are at our very gates and in you it inspires no fear at all.
00:54:58He's in all places, God, even among the Prussians.
00:55:01Then, sister, you would say we've nothing to fear concerning our enemies?
00:55:05It is only bad Catholics I fear.
00:55:07And that's all?
00:55:10When I was small, one day in church, the curé spoke about sinners.
00:55:16He was quite stern.
00:55:18The congregation was annoyed, but they just said,
00:55:22well, he's doing his job, that's all.
00:55:25I fail to see the point.
00:55:28I would say the Prussians are doing their job, monsieur.
00:56:01No!
00:56:24No! He can't! Don't go away!
00:56:31No!
00:57:02You look so troubled, my child. What is it?
00:57:05A nightmare?
00:57:07The evil one.
00:57:09He is after you?
00:57:11Right in bed, he's there.
00:57:13It's his special domain, child.
00:57:15Here, sit down.
00:57:19I see.
00:57:20I see.
00:57:21I see.
00:57:22I see.
00:57:23I see.
00:57:24I see.
00:57:25I see.
00:57:26I see.
00:57:27I see.
00:57:28Sit down.
00:57:31I start sleeping and then he appears.
00:57:34He tells me all sorts of things, awful things.
00:57:37The devil's within us, the way God is.
00:57:40You have to throw him out.
00:57:43When I do that, I use this.
00:57:49It's my method and it works.
00:57:51There's holy water as well.
00:57:53Holy water?
00:57:54You spray holy water all over your bed and very quickly the enemy is gone.
00:58:01Was there anything else, child?
00:58:06I'm scared.
00:58:08What are you afraid of, my child?
00:58:12Just suppose I was mistaken.
00:58:15And Mother Superior is right, after all.
00:58:19In her opinion, I never saw the Virgin.
00:58:24Mother General doesn't want to accept it.
00:58:28They don't imagine I've been lying.
00:58:31No.
00:58:33They don't think that.
00:58:35Or I wouldn't be here, I know that.
00:58:40But it could be that my two eyes only thought she was there.
00:58:48Then you wouldn't have those eyes.
00:58:50That voice.
00:58:52That smile.
00:58:54You wouldn't be the Bernadette you are if the Virgin hadn't appeared to you.
00:58:58At Lourdes, it doesn't matter where.
00:59:01Child, you have seen her.
00:59:03And when I look into your eyes, I see her too.
00:59:06Be at peace.
00:59:10He was in the nude.
00:59:22When I was 15, at the mansion of my parents,
00:59:25I used to enjoy going on hunts with my brothers and companions.
00:59:29One night, the door of my room burst open.
00:59:32In walked one of my brother's friends.
00:59:35In the nude.
00:59:36The way your devil did.
00:59:38Wearing only a nightgown, I ran into the woods.
00:59:41Then what?
00:59:43Just two days later, I went as a boarder with the Sisters of Nevers at Figeac.
00:59:47I wanted to show you how a naked man could lead you to God too.
00:59:52Good night, Bernadette.
01:00:23My dear sister, whatever's wrong?
01:00:25Has anyone inflicted pain?
01:00:33I just heard about it.
01:00:35My dear Papa's dead.
01:00:39My dear Papa's dead.
01:00:41My dear Papa's dead.
01:00:43My dear Papa's dead.
01:00:45My dear Papa's dead.
01:00:47My dear Papa's dead.
01:00:49My dear Papa's dead.
01:00:54It was Saturday. He went at 9 o'clock.
01:01:03Not long ago, you had a terrible pain of your brother's sudden death.
01:01:08And now it's my turn.
01:01:11Did you come to get a remedy or what?
01:01:14Something for my throat.
01:01:16I caught a chill at recreation.
01:01:41Here, try this.
01:01:44Three of them each day, but no more than that.
01:01:47You can return the box when you're well again.
01:01:50Thank you, sister.
01:01:55Courage.
01:02:04Blessed heart of Jesus,
01:02:06accept each of my tears as supplication for those who suffer.
01:02:12Give me, I beseech you,
01:02:14the bread of detachment from creature things,
01:02:17the bread of patience to bear the suffering,
01:02:21the bread of my beloved father, Fiat.
01:02:36She's coming now.
01:03:07There we are, you as well. You are sick.
01:03:11Who can we trust?
01:03:36You are my love.
01:03:44Pyrenean mountains,
01:03:49you are my love.
01:03:54Yes, my love.
01:04:07BELL RINGS
01:04:17Good evening, sister.
01:04:19Good evening, father.
01:04:24I would like to have an interview with Sister Marie Benhall.
01:04:28Father, that isn't possible.
01:04:31We cannot lift the closure without the express permission
01:04:34of Monseigneur the Bishop of Nevers.
01:04:36At present, he is travelling.
01:04:38I've travelled rather a long way,
01:04:40and for only one purpose, to see Sister Marie Benhall.
01:04:43That right is accorded only to bishops and to no one else.
01:04:46Oh, well, lucky for me, I am the Bishop of Orléans.
01:04:50Oh, I beg pardon, Monseigneur.
01:04:52I'll inform Mother Superior instantly.
01:05:05Our Mother General would pray you excuse her, Monseigneur.
01:05:08She's somewhat ill, unfortunately,
01:05:10and requested my presence in her place.
01:05:12Thank you, sister. I shan't prevail on your kindness for long.
01:05:16My name is Felix de Pontleux.
01:05:18I pray you excuse her, Monseigneur.
01:05:20She's somewhat ill, unfortunately,
01:05:22and requested my presence in her place.
01:05:24Thank you, sister.
01:05:24I shan't prevail on your kindness for long.
01:05:42My name is Felix de Pontleux, an old bishop,
01:05:47and I've seen many things in this life,
01:05:49and learned lessons, some of which quite bitter.
01:05:54I have an open mind, but I'm not gullible.
01:05:57I know the evil serpent lodges too often
01:05:59within clasped hands.
01:06:03I inform you, sister, the adulation of which
01:06:05you are object incites me to pose certain questions.
01:06:12I would pose them as well, Monseigneur.
01:06:15I hope that my asking questions doesn't tire you
01:06:18too much, sister.
01:06:19When the blessed Lord permits, we mustn't complain.
01:06:25I'm sure you realize we live in an era
01:06:27where visionaries spring up continually.
01:06:30La Salette, Bétharame, Garrison, Mélanie Calvard,
01:06:35who has seen the Holy Virgin in the mountains of Savoie
01:06:39and sought refuge in a cloister.
01:06:40Unfortunately, she succeeded only
01:06:42in creating scandals moving from one convent to another.
01:06:45She finally was expelled after creating
01:06:47a scandal at the Carmelites.
01:06:48The Curé d'Ars not one minute acknowledged her apparitions.
01:06:53I agree with him.
01:06:56How much she suffered.
01:06:58You feel sorry for her?
01:07:01Even when you suffer for a thing that's only imagined,
01:07:06you still become a martyr.
01:07:08Quite.
01:07:09Yes, certainly.
01:07:09Maybe that poor girl lied.
01:07:12I will still pray, because we have to pray for those
01:07:15who do offense to God.
01:07:17For Mélanie Calvard, the trouble all
01:07:20began with her first convent, where
01:07:22she was shown a veritable veneration by her superiors.
01:07:27That can't be the danger in my case here.
01:07:30They would be back at Lourdes.
01:07:33I believe you're considered there almost a saint.
01:07:36Yes, before you realize it, you're turned into one.
01:07:40But then, they're sure it won't be necessary to pray
01:07:42anymore for their saint.
01:07:45When I die, they'll all say, Sister Mary Bernard
01:07:49was only a saint, a little one.
01:07:51And while they're making jokes, I roast in purgatory.
01:07:55Oh.
01:07:56Oh.
01:07:57Oh.
01:07:58Oh.
01:07:59Oh.
01:08:00Oh.
01:08:01Oh.
01:08:02Oh.
01:08:03Oh.
01:08:04Oh.
01:08:05Oh.
01:08:06Oh.
01:08:07Oh.
01:08:08Oh.
01:08:09Pardon me, Sister.
01:08:10You've been tired by our talk.
01:08:13Oh, I'm used to it.
01:08:15It really hurts not being able to get any breath.
01:08:18But it's more bearable than pain in the heart.
01:08:21You can believe what I say.
01:08:22I know you're right.
01:08:24Wouldn't you be glad to return to Lourdes,
01:08:26have a look at your grotto?
01:08:27Ah, yes.
01:08:29As a little bird, I would go.
01:08:32You realize that, Lourdes, I did what everyone does.
01:08:36I acquired your photograph.
01:08:40I paid 10 centimes for it.
01:08:43That's all I'm worth.
01:08:45Well, in truth, it doesn't resemble you much.
01:08:50It's clear you were disguised as a saint, a little one.
01:08:53Is that what you said?
01:08:54It wasn't only that.
01:08:56Because the photographer said I should look straight into the sky
01:09:01to pretend I was seeing the Virgin.
01:09:04She wasn't up there.
01:09:07Well, I'm not too sure.
01:09:11I think I'm about to be shown out.
01:09:15Monseigneur, the doctor wants us to marry Bernard in the infirmary.
01:09:19My work won't wait.
01:09:27You aren't going to ask me the questions that you wanted to, Monseigneur?
01:09:34I have no more questions.
01:09:37My sister.
01:09:46Please take very good care of Bernadette.
01:09:50It's a treasure of innocence that you possess.
01:10:16Well, so you're really here this time.
01:10:19You gave in at last.
01:10:29It must amuse you, seeing me here.
01:10:31It doesn't amuse me.
01:10:32I'm astonished.
01:10:34When Mother Vosu told me I was to act as your guardian angel,
01:10:38I couldn't believe it.
01:10:41When Mother Vosu told me I was to act as your guardian angel,
01:10:44I couldn't get over it.
01:10:47And to think back to the day of my departure,
01:10:50when I asked you whether you would like to come along.
01:10:53What? A sister of Nevers?
01:10:56Not me.
01:10:58Yet here you are.
01:11:00Yes, but it took me two years.
01:11:02God wasn't in a hurry, it appears.
01:11:05What are they saying, Aunt Laure?
01:11:07That you're going to return.
01:11:08That shall not be.
01:11:10As soon as I am gone, they'll want to get my poor dead carcass.
01:11:14But they won't get me.
01:11:19Look. The grotto's completely changed.
01:11:23It's very beautiful now.
01:11:25Oh, my poor grotto.
01:11:29Not what it is at all.
01:11:31To help you, Sister said.
01:11:36I see our dear sisters at the hospice are all present.
01:11:39And I'm to say that Bernadette gets half the chocolate.
01:11:45They gave me all this for you as well.
01:11:48Oh, my poor friend.
01:11:50I'll never see any of all that.
01:11:52Why not?
01:11:54Here, it will disappear.
01:11:56It's for the community.
01:11:58Well, you take the virtue.
01:12:00Your sister told me it's a present.
01:12:03There's a letter.
01:12:06Then it's a fact.
01:12:09Twanette is really selling religious objects in Lourdes.
01:12:12That's right.
01:12:14It's something I never wanted.
01:12:22Tell me, how is my Twanette?
01:12:24Well, losing two children in six months is pretty hard.
01:12:28And they were so young.
01:12:33Do you know what Twanette says?
01:12:36She's awaiting a baby.
01:12:38And if it's a girl, they'll name her Bernadette.
01:12:43Go ahead.
01:12:48Again.
01:12:52Doctor, may I go to Easter morning mass?
01:12:56In two weeks, you'll be up again.
01:12:58On condition that you follow your treatment.
01:13:01I never do anything else.
01:13:07She might go any time, spitting blood.
01:13:10Will you summon Father Deuce?
01:13:12Tell him to prepare to give her extreme unction.
01:13:24Now, my child, perhaps you should consider entrusting God with your soul.
01:13:29It will be the last time.
01:13:32It will be the third time I have received extreme unction.
01:13:36I always got well again.
01:13:38Well, you can't be sure.
01:13:41Maybe this time will be the good one.
01:13:45In heaven, we're happy.
01:13:48Here, we dirty ourselves.
01:13:51I want you to please accept with courage what I have to say.
01:13:57Yes, my mother.
01:14:00Yes, my mother.
01:14:01Your work at the infirmary is now a little more than you can take.
01:14:04I'll put Sister Gabrielle in charge this time.
01:14:07You'll agree, my sister, if you're to cure others, you can't be in bed too much yourself.
01:14:12I've done the two till now.
01:14:15I recognize fully you've shown truly remarkable courage and general competence.
01:14:20But we all have our limits.
01:14:23As long as I'm able to take care of others, no matter how little...
01:14:29Mother General and I want you to fulfill work that's somewhat lighter.
01:14:33Aid to the sacristy.
01:14:36It sounds good.
01:14:38And if you want, you may help Sister Gabrielle in the infirmary.
01:14:41And in that way, you have two jobs instead of one.
01:14:45Let's hope all these sacraments of Father Deus are not necessary for a third time.
01:14:49And soon you'll be up again.
01:14:52I hope so.
01:15:20Ah!
01:15:26Ah!
01:15:32Ah!
01:15:50Ah!
01:15:57Sister, what's all of this? Here, give me that.
01:16:00No, it's mine. Victory's mine.
01:16:03Ah!
01:16:07Ah!
01:16:10Ah!
01:16:13Ah!
01:16:19Ah!
01:16:45Take a rest, Sister. You're exhausted.
01:16:47Come along. Sister Gabrielle will take care of you.
01:16:50I can't leave the altar like that, my sisters.
01:16:52It's all right. I'll finish it.
01:16:58My God, my sisters. I am good for nothing.
01:17:08Thank you, my sisters.
01:17:18I came to say goodbye.
01:17:20You're leaving?
01:17:22I'm too bored here.
01:17:24Already bored, and you're here only two weeks.
01:17:27Yes, well, go and tell Mother Superior.
01:17:30I already told her.
01:17:32She asked me to stay till tomorrow.
01:17:36In that case, will you assist me later?
01:17:39Tonight, I have to go.
01:17:41Yes, of course.
01:17:43In that case, will you assist me later?
01:17:46Tonight, at six o'clock, I have to treat an old sister who is a Superior.
01:17:50She suffers a great deal. Will you do it?
01:17:53Yes, certainly.
01:18:14Is she a sister?
01:18:16Yes, certainly, but it's impossible for her to wear the habit.
01:18:19In a moment, you'll see why.
01:18:21Will you boil some water and get a little basin?
01:18:30Let's go now.
01:18:33It's now I most regret losing my vision.
01:18:36The Blessed Lord surely made you pretty.
01:18:39No, I think he forgot.
01:19:03Put it there.
01:19:27You coward!
01:19:29You coward!
01:19:31Never will you be a sister of charity.
01:19:33I beg your pardon.
01:19:35Where are you going?
01:19:37To throw this out.
01:19:39I will if you like.
01:19:43Tomorrow, before you leave,
01:19:45she'll have a walk. You'll accompany her, our poor suffering sister.
01:19:48And you'll watch over her as if she were God.
01:19:59Let's go.
01:20:30Oh, God!
01:20:32Give me strength to go to the very end.
01:20:35Fatigue didn't prevent you from going to the summit of Calvary.
01:20:39I accept suffering since it is your will.
01:20:42May your will be done.
01:20:52I'm being sent to a hospital at Zuyak, in the Lut.
01:20:57May I please say one thing?
01:20:59Yes, what?
01:21:01At the hospital, you mustn't speak too much, understand?
01:21:05And when you treat a patient,
01:21:07you learn when you should leave,
01:21:09to avoid any thanks for just doing your work.
01:21:12It is an honor to look after your patient.
01:21:16You're in pain.
01:21:18No, it's nothing. It'll go away.
01:21:20It's my knee.
01:21:22Please do go on.
01:21:27Remember, always see Jesus Christ in the poor whom you treat.
01:21:31The more the poor one is disgusting, the more you love him.
01:21:36You know, today, when Monseigneur made me Sister Vincent,
01:21:40I was scared.
01:21:42I was because I wondered maybe I wouldn't hold out.
01:21:46Don't worry, sister.
01:21:48Do you suppose I put a habit on you and you wouldn't wear it?
01:21:53Something of yours, a souvenir. Could I have any little thing?
01:22:01I have a gift that is yours.
01:22:04It's one no one has had before my sister.
01:22:08You'll put yourself at the base of the cross and stay there.
01:22:13To you, our Lord will speak, and you will hear him.
01:22:18The Holy Virgin told you that?
01:22:21Now we're going to embrace. It's the last one.
01:22:27I'll see you one day.
01:22:30But not in this life.
01:22:37Julie!
01:22:39One last thing, Julie. When you're alone with a man, see that the doors open wide.
01:22:45Yeah.
01:22:48Well, nobody could say that you take me lightly.
01:22:51We could carry four more like you.
01:22:53What a chore, my poor sisters.
01:22:55But my place is there. Our new chaplain couldn't say his very first mass without me.
01:23:02It's this or crutches, my mother.
01:23:08I was already good for nothing.
01:23:10Well, now Mother Superior will surely say I'm a dead weight.
01:23:14Ha, ha, ha.
01:24:15So often I'm deprived of the Holy Mass.
01:24:18Here I can have it day and night, all the time.
01:24:22I'm annoyed with that altar boy there.
01:24:24He holds his bell, only doesn't ring.
01:24:27I often want to shake him.
01:24:31I see that you pray to your patron.
01:24:34Yes, I do.
01:24:36But I don't want to shake him.
01:24:38I often want to shake him.
01:24:42I see that you pray to your patron saint.
01:24:45I pray, but I don't imitate him.
01:24:49Saint Bernard loved to suffer.
01:24:52But not me.
01:24:54Oh, no.
01:24:57In suffering, there's an absurdity.
01:24:59Rather, avoid it when we can.
01:25:01You recall Jesus at Gethsemane.
01:25:04My father, is it possible?
01:25:08That this trial passed far from me.
01:25:11I'm wondering.
01:25:13I've thought of what you said in your sermon.
01:25:16You commit a sin, only if you want to sin.
01:25:21Well, I'm wondering, since I've never wanted to commit a sin,
01:25:26did I commit one?
01:25:29That's much too simple.
01:25:39Mother!
01:25:46I was afraid I'd be too late.
01:25:48That you'd already have departed.
01:25:50I wanted to see you again.
01:25:52Tell me, how ever did you know?
01:25:54I believe nobody knew I was going, except Mother General.
01:25:58No idea.
01:26:00You see, I've become very sick.
01:26:02Off in Neuilly, I will be treated.
01:26:04They might take care of me.
01:26:06In Neuilly, I will be treated.
01:26:08They might decide to operate.
01:26:11And so I'm going.
01:26:12You will return to St. Gildar, my mother.
01:26:15You will return.
01:26:17But, I won't promise, Mother, that I'll be waiting here.
01:26:26Holy God protect you, child.
01:26:29I hope you won't remember me too harshly.
01:26:33One is clumsy when one loves someone.
01:26:37It's pride, I never had that sin.
01:26:40Thanks to what you did, I respected my vow of obedience.
01:26:45My mother, it meant that I could be much closer to our Lord.
01:26:48I shall pray to God each day.
01:26:50He will grant you relief, my child, and consolation.
01:26:53No, Mother, not consolation.
01:26:57No for strength, and patience.
01:27:01Bless me, my mother.
01:27:32Sister.
01:27:37Would you inform me, Sister, just where might I see someone?
01:27:41Sister Marie Bernard.
01:27:43Sister Marie Bernard.
01:27:45Ah, yes, I might.
01:27:47We're just passing through, Nevers.
01:27:49I wouldn't want to miss having a look at the saint.
01:27:55I'm sorry, Sister.
01:27:57I wouldn't want to miss having a look at the saint.
01:28:01My rosary, I brought it for her to bless.
01:28:05Absolutely, absolutely.
01:28:08Just stay here, Madame.
01:28:10I will go and get her.
01:28:13Mother Marie Josephine Amber, Mother General of the Sisters of Nevers,
01:28:17died March 1st, 1878, after a long illness.
01:28:21Monseigneur de la Doue accompanies her to her final abode.
01:28:27You must rest. You're completely exhausted.
01:28:30No, I want to go with you.
01:28:33No, I want to go with you.
01:28:35No, I want to go with you.
01:28:37No, I want to go with you.
01:28:39You're completely exhausted.
01:28:40No, I want to go with her at least up to the gate.
01:29:00The new bishop, what do you think, Sister?
01:29:03He's small and very cold.
01:29:05He isn't going to be here long.
01:29:10Bell
01:29:15On September 22nd, 1878,
01:29:18Sister Marie Bernard took her final vows.
01:29:39I will guard you for the rest of your life.
01:29:59The room of the Holy Cross is a sanctuary today.
01:30:02In 1878, with so little space available,
01:30:05it was made into an infirmary for the sisters.
01:30:08On October 30th, Bernadette was taken there,
01:30:11and it was there that she spent the last months of her life on earth.
01:30:15Despite her suffering, the world continued to harass her.
01:30:19Your sister, Toinette, attests that on the 11th of February,
01:30:24when you crossed over the canal barefooted,
01:30:27you declared, and I quote you,
01:30:30the water felt quite warm.
01:30:32It was like the water when I washed dishes.
01:30:36It's possible.
01:30:38I recall it did feel warm.
01:30:43But remembering what I said...
01:30:47My child, Father Sempe has to know these things in precise detail.
01:30:51He's working on a book all about your visions.
01:30:54Ah, Mary, my tender mother.
01:31:00Here is your child, Bernadette.
01:31:03I'm not able to go on.
01:31:06Have pity on me.
01:31:10It had been 13 years earlier that Bernadette left Lourdes,
01:31:1413 years since she had seen any of her family.
01:31:33Come.
01:31:58But why didn't you write me of your intended visit?
01:32:04Shit.
01:32:06The trip wasn't planned.
01:32:11Somebody said you'd been sick, so I wanted to...
01:32:14They all exaggerate.
01:32:16As usual, my asthma.
01:32:18And the sciatica and the knee hurts, too.
01:32:20But no point in getting too worried.
01:32:23You won't embrace me?
01:32:33No.
01:32:42Bring your chair and talk a while.
01:32:44We've much to say.
01:32:56You're in pain.
01:32:58It's sciatica. It hurts a lot.
01:33:01Now then, why didn't you reply to my letters?
01:33:05You don't write so often.
01:33:08Can't you guess why?
01:33:10Simply because my letters are religious objects.
01:33:12They're collected by anyone going to Lourdes.
01:33:15It's true, people collect things, objects, little squares of cloth,
01:33:18goblets that belong to me, including my letters.
01:33:22Should it continue, I'll stop writing to anyone.
01:33:25Yes, but I never did that.
01:33:27Antoinette?
01:33:29Oh, it's mostly her husband.
01:33:32He makes her do it.
01:33:34They're miserable, you know.
01:33:36They buried their fifth child.
01:33:38Oh, my God.
01:33:49They tried to stop me seeing you today.
01:33:52On account of the cloture.
01:33:54I needed special authorization from Superior General.
01:33:58She understood right away a brother has a right to see his sister.
01:34:01Yes, and especially when it could be the last time.
01:34:08Your wife? Are both of you happy?
01:34:12You could have written to me to tell me you were going to marry.
01:34:16No, I don't mind that you abandon the priesthood.
01:34:20But the one thing you should do when you marry
01:34:22is to speak to whoever's head of the family.
01:34:26Apparently you are making a living at the grotto selling candles.
01:34:30It isn't that way.
01:34:32I work as a laborer constructing the basilica.
01:34:34I earn 45 sous a day.
01:34:36To get here, a pilgrim at Lourdes paid my way.
01:34:40And my little Pierre? Tell me how he is.
01:34:43Your little Pierre, you say?
01:34:46He's 20 now and measures six feet.
01:34:48I understand even he's been selling these objects. Is that right?
01:34:52Yes, but he has other ambitions.
01:34:55He's going into the bishop's services, personal valet.
01:34:58That'll be good.
01:35:00Not bad.
01:35:02Until then, selling all his religious objects,
01:35:06the one thing he shouldn't do, never open shop Sundays.
01:35:10The blessed Lord will arrange it so he earns as much during the week.
01:35:15I will tell him. I promise.
01:35:26I really hoped that my two brothers would dedicate their lives to God.
01:35:32Don't be angry with us.
01:35:34It's difficult having a sister like you.
01:35:38Yes, but you know I'm still Bernadette.
01:35:42Well, now.
01:35:44Return to Lourdes.
01:35:46Should the blessed Lord demand the sacrifice in this world
01:35:49that we shall not see each other again,
01:35:52except with joy as well.
01:36:05Recognize this?
01:36:07Aunt Bernard gave it to you.
01:36:10I found it in a drawer at the mill.
01:36:18I know.
01:36:20It can't mean much to you.
01:36:27Now return it to its place.
01:36:33Goodbye, brother.
01:36:36Goodbye, Bernadette.
01:36:43Look how it pleases the sun to tease me as it does.
01:36:48It comes all the way to this room to deride.
01:36:51The silicate seems to have an excellent effect on your tumor.
01:36:54Tomorrow I'll come back to change the dressing.
01:36:57I am cared for better than a princess.
01:37:01It's because I'm the bride of the great king.
01:37:04Now, is there anything that you want?
01:37:07All I want is to have the grace of a good death.
01:37:10Nothing else?
01:37:12Nothing.
01:37:14I have to be a victim.
01:37:16No question. You have a terrible enemy in you.
01:37:20Till tomorrow, my sister.
01:37:23That one I don't want to see ever again.
01:37:33It won't be much longer and her morale isn't good either.
01:37:36Tell me how to cure her when all she wants is a good death.
01:37:39You tell me how.
01:37:47How do you feel, my child?
01:37:53Ground up like a poor grain of wheat.
01:37:57It's Easter before long.
01:38:00All things in nature come alive again.
01:38:03You too will be better.
01:38:06No, I won't be.
01:38:09My penance will go on until I meet my death.
01:38:14My good sister.
01:38:17Today, Good Friday, is upon us.
01:38:20And also the day of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows.
01:38:25I think the moment has come to receive extramunction.
01:38:29This one, I will receive it for my death.
01:38:35It won't be to begin living again.
01:38:40Suffering and prayer.
01:38:44No, I'm no longer good for anything else.
01:38:47You shouldn't be troubled if you can't do anything.
01:38:50When our heart accuses us, God is much greater than our heart.
01:38:54And He knows all things.
01:38:57Our salvation is Christ on the cross, who suffered to save the world.
01:39:03Whoever suffers in patience has no need for any other salvation.
01:39:08The cross replaces all other things, and nothing can replace the cross.
01:39:14Suffer and offer.
01:39:38My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphor.
01:39:42In the vineyards of Engerdy.
01:39:45Set me as a seal upon your heart, let it be my bond.
01:39:48For love is as strong as death.
01:39:51Love is unshakable, like hell itself.
01:39:55It burns as fire burns.
01:39:57It devours like a flame.
01:40:00The voice of my beloved.
01:40:02Behold, he cometh, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
01:40:13My sisters, it is now the litany of the sacraments.
01:40:18Obey the rule.
01:40:20My crucifix.
01:40:33She wants her crucifix.
01:40:35My Jesus.
01:40:48Attach it to me.
01:41:06I'm afraid.
01:41:09I've received such grace, and with it done so pitifully little.
01:41:16Confidence, my child.
01:41:18You've done much work for the blessed virgin.
01:41:21The moment you leave this world, she'll be there for you.
01:41:27Yes.
01:41:31Yes, I hope that.
01:41:40I saw her.
01:41:43I saw her.
01:41:47And she's beautiful.
01:41:49Beautiful.
01:41:53Holy Mary.
01:41:55Mother of God.
01:41:58Pray for me.
01:42:00Pray for a poor sinner.
01:42:07I'm thirsty.
01:42:09My dear sister.
01:42:12Now, my sister, you are on the cross.
01:42:18The way he was.
01:42:25It was at three o'clock in the afternoon on Easter Wednesday in 1879,
01:42:30the very hour that Christ died on the cross,
01:42:33that Sister Marie Bernard rendered her soul to God.
01:42:36For a while, her body lay in state at the little chapel of St. Joseph,
01:42:40where she was to be buried until 1909.
01:42:44On the 8th of December, 1933,
01:42:48Bernadette was canonized, the day of the Immaculate Conception.
01:42:53When her body was exhumed for the third time in 46 years,
01:42:56it was found intact just as it now lies in the chapel of the Sisters of Nevers.
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