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There
is incontestable proof that Bernadette saw nothing at all.
It
is not that difficult to prove that
Bernadette
was too far away from the lady in the grotto to see that the chain of her
rosary was gold during the first vision though she said she saw it. This was before she crossed the wide river
to the grotto (page 35, The Appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the
Grotto of Lourdes). She spoke chronologically
all the time so there is no need to say she was not doing it here. She was required by the Church to do that
for too many people would have been claiming apparitions and then speaking
about them non chronologically to make it sound more truthful.
It
is odd that the lady goes back into the rock instead of just vanishing (ibid.
page 35). She did not live in it and
there was no exit at the back.
Bernadette probably thought that there was in her naïve way. But the real Virgin would either ascend or
just vanish. Was the freethinker’s
idea that the first vision was a trick by a girl posing as Mary correct? If you were not the Virgin you would have
to vanish by hiding inside the cave.
Perhaps the girl had a black blanket to hide under if it was hard to
hide in the cave which would give the illusion of vanishing. This girl could have triggered Bernadette’s
subsequent visions.
Bernadette
said that she never saw anybody as beautiful as the lady (page 65, The
Appearances of the Blessed Virgin etc).
Surely, she can’t be that pretty?
If she has a face that that face has to be matched by somebody’s in
beauty. This attests for
inauthenticity.
Bernadette
said she had never seen anything like the material the vision’s dress was
made of (Bernadette of Lourdes, page 14).
Material is material so Bernadette certainly lied. If the dress was glowing then Bernadette
must have seen many forms of clothing that glowed in the sunlight. Bernadette wanted to sound very mysterious.
Bernadette
said that the girl in the grotto was no bigger than herself (page 87, Mother
of Nations). Yet she stated that the
girl’s age was 16 or 17. Owing to
malnutrition and poverty Bernadette was far too small for her thirteen years
so she is contradicting herself about the girl’s age for she would have been
eleven or twelve had she been Bernadette’s size. Bernadette saw nothing.
Bernadette encountered an extreme devotion from the people to her starting from the early visions. People adored her and kissed her and literally kissed the dirt she walked on (Encountering Mary, page 50). Yet she made no effort despite her well-vaunted humility to avoid this. She did not disguise herself or make some arrangement to avoid the people. The young lady craved the adulation and the attention.
According
to the account by devout Catholic, Estrade, in his The Appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Grotto of Lourdes,
an atheist doctor, Dozous, converted to Catholicism over seeing the entranced
Bernadette cupping a candle flame for fifteen minutes and not getting burnt
even though the flame was licking her fingers.
Estrade’s
memory of the
With
the crowd around Bernadette, somebody would have moved the candle when they
saw the way she was holding it. They knew
she would not know if she was burning.
It is no use objecting that they saw it was not burning her for if you
see a person in danger it is like a reflex action for you immediately rush to
that person’s aid without even thinking.
Nobody would have let her hold a candle in the first place in case she
would go into a trance and get burnt.
Nobody had the right to let her do this because the apparitions had
not been checked and authenticated by the Church yet.
The
wind must have been strong when she cupped the flame so why did it not go out
when it went below her hands?
She
would have had the fingers closed to protect the flame so the doctor could
not have seen the flame licking her fingers but maybe the little
fingers. He made her open her hands to
examine her fingers afterwards suggesting the palms and the insides of the
fingers should have been burned so we detect more confusion in the dear old
doctor.
Bernadette
was thirteen and small for her age.
Her hands were delicate. The
flame would have been walled by the centre of her hands. Bernadette supposedly held her hands this
way for ten to fifteen minutes. And
that the end of her ecstasy she jumped for she was burned. So the candle would have burned down about
two inches in that time. So it could
not have been licking her fingers but the lower part of her hands including
the little fingers facing the ground if anything. So what was the doctor doing examining her
hands? Establishing a miracle where
there was no miracle.
When
she started to burn after the ecstasy she would have blistered and yet the
doctor says she had no marks. He was
lying.
And
why did the doctor say that the flame licked her left hand and that he
watched this for fifteen minutes? (page 127, The Appearances of the Blessed
Virgin etc). He claimed that there
were people there who could back up what he said. But he did not even give the date which
indicates that he was lying for he was unwilling to have the witnesses
tracked down. A surer indication is
that it would not just have been the left hand when she was cupping.
You
don’t mention witnesses and stop them from being tracked down unless you are
hiding something.
The
doctor for reasons of his own had turned against Atheism – perhaps he just
gave up on it for the Church was stronger - and told a lie to promote the
Catholic religion.
Even
the Church would have been embarrassed to admit that such an inconsequential
and unnecessary miracle happened. The
Church usually rejects apparitions that do such things or claim to –
outright. The Church teaches that God
doesn’t do trivial miracles. If he
does then it is like he is making mistakes and has to do miracles to correct
them. Trivial miracles are too trivial
to function as signs from God. To
claim that a trivial miracles has happened is blasphemous.
It
seems that Bernadette dug a hole with her hands in the grotto and a spring
burst from it. The apparition had told
her to drink of the spring and to wash in it.
Bernadette said, “I saw only a little dirty water; I put my hand in,
but could not take any. I scratched,
and the water came, but muddy. Three
times I threw it away, but the fourth time I could drink it” (page 28, Bernadette
of Lourdes). So Bernadette saw the
spring. She didn’t cause the spring. It was already there. It is recorded that
the grotto where Bernadette scraped was full of rubbish. This rubbish included rotten flesh and
surgical bandages. The apparition must
have been fake for the real Virgin Mary would not have instructed Bernadette
to risk her health when she had no guarantee that the Virgin Mary really was
with her. The Church says that risks
should not be taken over an apparition until she has verified it. And Church approval takes a long time to
come to pass and when it comes the Church does not like anybody even then
sacrificing too much for an apparition for the approval is more just
permission to accept the vision than approval.
As
for this spring at the Lourdes Grotto that Our Lady magically made to appear,
it was already there when Bernadette discovered it while having a
vision. Some fishermen and others said
they had sheltered in the Grotto and observed there never had been a spring
in it. Shepherds and farmers said that
they had seen a spring that occasionally appeared (page 222, The Appearances
of the Blessed Virgin etc). But when
Bernadette scraped the ground for the spring only a thin trickle came out
suggesting that the former just hadn’t noticed it. The shepherds and the farmers are the most
reliable for everybody wanted to believe that the spring was not there
previously. The digging could have
moved whatever was obstructing the spring.
Bernadette had visited the grotto before and could have known that
there was a spring or trickle there.
The farmers and the shepherds are the least incredible witnesses so we
should believe them.
The
real Mary would have promised a spring to Bernadette long before telling her
to find it, giving Bernadette time to tell the people. Nobody could then say that Bernadette who
did lots of wacky and dirty things in the grotto found the spring by pure
luck and without looking for it and then decided to lie and say the lady told
her there was spring seconds before she stumbled on it.
The
Church knows and admits that the spring was not a physical miracle (page 87,
The Appearances of the Blessed Virgin etc).
Mother of Nations says that it is apparently generally accepted that
there was a spring all along but that it was dried up (page 94).
The
booklet, Bernadette of Lourdes, informs us that the source was there all the
time and that it flowed better when the rubbish that was an obstacle to it
was cleared away and it did not run from the spot where Bernadette scraped
with her hands alone (page 31). Those
who surmise that Bernadette miraculously knew the right spot are to be
disappointed.
The
spot was an infectious dump and this lady had Bernadette eating grass from it
and her and the people drinking from a spring that was there all along
according to shepherds at the time (page 87, 222, The Appearances of the
Blessed Virgin etc; Mother of Nations, page 94). The Virgin asked them to do something
dangerous over appearances that were not checked for authenticity yet! She was a devil.
If
St Bernadette made up the whole story about the lady she had to hide in a
convent to avoid being caught out in her lies. The body of St Bernadette is declared to
beincorrupt and displayed in the convent she joined at Nevers. She was made a saint on
On
The
Immaculate Conception is the doctrine that the Virgin was conceived in her
mother’s womb without the sin of Adam staining her soul. You cannot say that you are the maculate
conception or the Immaculate Conception any more than you can say, “I am
birth”. Was the apparition not of the
Virgin Mary but a symbol? A symbolic
image sent by God could call itself the Immaculate Conception for it pictures
that event. But the vision made
Bernadette believe she was the Virgin Mary, a person not a symbol. So we see a contradiction. The apparition could have easily said, “I
am the fruit of the immaculate conception”.
Jesus said that he was the resurrection in the John Gospel but that
was poetry for a poetic gospel. The
lady of
Jesus
said that he was the resurrection meaning in the sense that he was the giver
of life. It is a poetic way of saying what he is. But this would not allow Mary to say she
was the Immaculate Conception for it is not saying what she is. It is identifying her with a past
event. Being conceived immaculate does
not mean one is immaculate now.
The
nearly reliable sources tell us that Bernadette did not know what the
immaculate conception was but knew that it had a connection to Mary (page
125, The Appearances of the Blessed Virgin etc) suggesting she knew more than
she was letting on and knew enough to make her pretend that the lady said she
was the Immaculate Conception.
Bernadette would have heard of it from the priest who stayed where she
stayed in Bartres for the papal proclamation of the Immaculate Conception was
big news in the Church and everywhere.
She would have heard it in the chapel or heard prayers in its honour
there. Prayers in its honour would
have been and were said in her hearing at the grotto (page 124, ibid). Bernadette would have asked what the Immaculate
Conception was. She went to Mass on
the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
She certainly knew what lies to use to get people to believe her. The idea would have come to her from people
who wanted the apparition to prove itself by revealing secrets that
Bernadette would and could not know.
She wanted the revelation of the lady’s identity to seem like
supernatural knowledge.
The
lady said, “Quy soi L’Immaculada Councepciou” as it is in the local dialect
(page 40, Bernadette of Lourdes). Yet
Bernadette called it coun-chet-sion only hours after the vision (page 125,
The Appearances of the Blessed Virgin etc).
So she knew the word but wasn’t able to pronounce it. Who could forget the pronunciation of such
a great revelation of a great vision unless they never had a vision at
all? Bernadette kept repeating what
the lady said until she reached the priest (page 93, ibid). This makes it impossible for her to have
forgotten the pronunciation later.
Bernadette must have faked her ecstasy that took place during her
vision for real ecstasy is so exciting that nothing can be forgotten. The Immaculate Conception came to her from
her confused Bartres memories not from an apparition.
Did
the lady say she was the immaculate something else and not the Immaculate
Conception? Maybe she did and so she
was not the Virgin.
The
lady never promised cures but they are what
The Church claimed to
authenticate that Mary appeared to Bernadette at
Bernadette
did not know who the girl in the cave that only she could see and hear
was. She called her aquero which means
that thing or that person. This was in
spite of the fact that Virgin looked like one of the statues in the
The vision wouldn't say who she was. She was inviting Bernadette to see a vision that refused to admit she was the Virgin Mary or from Heaven. It is true that the vision could lie but it looks bad when a vision invites a child to attend to apparitions that may be caused by forbidden powers or by Satan and doesn't indicate that it is from God. St John of the Cross, an experienced mystic, said that seeing apparitions should be avoided for if they are from God he will make sure you see them and that you should only believe in an apparition as a last resort for they are so dangerous and so many have been misled by them. How much more should one avoid a vision of a beautiful lady that doesn't claim to be the Blessed Virgin.
When
the girl appearing to Bernadette saw the pen and paper she said that they were not necessary. They are if you are to have a reasonable
belief in an apparition. If the
apparition is not identified as Mary from the start then how can one expect
the Church to keep a close eye on the happenings in case there will be a
commission? Also, why could the lady
not write and give a harmless proof?
At
that time the vision came down a bit from the grotto because Bernadette had pen
and paper with her. And Bernadette
asked her if she was from God to tell her what she wanted. At this, the lady smiled with
pleasure. But then she grew sad and
shook her head when Bernadette told her to go away if she was not from God –
a demon pretending to be the Virgin would be annoyed at the thought that God
might stop him appearing. Then the
lady made a sign that seemed to tell Bernadette to go away but it turned out
it was the two holy women who had crept up behind her she meant. This is ridiculous for Mary was invisible
and intangible to the women and Bernadette had nothing to secretive to tell
her. It suggests some kind of
hallucination and Mary would not have confused Bernadette for her visit would
have been planned down to the finest detail before she left Heaven. Could it be that the vision was afraid of
the women for God was with them? That
would explain everything including why the vision was shocked at Bernadette
for telling her to go if she was not from God. Read it in Bernadette of Lourdes, pages
10-20.
In
the first apparition, the vision thought before she asked Bernadette to come
for fifteen days (page 47, The Appearances of the Blessed Virgin etc). The real Virgin would have had it planned
better than that and she wouldn’t have need to think. And she could not come without God telling
her exactly what he wanted first. This
lady was not Mary or from God.
The
lady never showed up one day despite having told the child to come to the
grotto for fifteen days for her implying she was to appear those days (page
69, ibid). The lady broke her promise.
Bernadette
said the lady moved the rosary beads she had through her fingers in tune with
Bernadette’s recital of the rosary but the lady said nothing apart from the
Gloria (page 35, ibid). The lady
should have said the Our Father with her and left the bit about trespasses
out if she was the sinless Virgin. The
real Virgin would not turn away from a chance to pray. The Devil would be more likely to say the
Gloria than to ask for the things in the Lord’s Prayer for encouraging us to
praise God is not as bad for him as encouraging us to pray for the
destruction of Satan’s influence. Or
was the lady praying silently and just saying the glorias out loud? This is improbable when she said the
glorias. She only told her beads to
keep track of Bernadette’s prayers.
The
apparition once told Bernadette that she did not promise to make her happy on
earth but in Heaven. So she told her
she would go to Heaven. Catholic
theology forbids a person to believe that they will go to Heaven. It is the sin of presumption. Nobody knows if they will be deserving of
salvation or alive tomorrow.
One
time, the vision had Bernadette pushing handfuls of earth into her mouth and
eating a wild plant and eating grass (page 84, ibid). Bernadette was actually told by the vision
to eat the plant (page 45, The Evidence for Visions of the Virgin Mary). This command proves that the vision was not
real or was not the Virgin Mary, the command makes no sense. That was a dangerous command for the grotto
was an infectious dump. The real Mary
would not have put Bernadette and pilgrims at risk by drawing them to such a
place. And especially by enticing them
with an allegedly miraculous spring of water and the lady even had them
kissing the filthy disease-ridden ground (page 103, The Appearances of the
Blessed Virgin etc). The Church says
we cannot trust a vision too much or take risks over it until she says it is
real which takes a long time and Mary understood that and still asked for
that unreasonable amount of trust that she was Mary. Yet the same water is used for a time in
the baths at Lourdes into which pilgrims are immersed and it has been known
for pieces of flesh and pus to be floating around and the Church boasts that
nobody get sick from this filthy water (page 49, The Crowds of Lourdes). But with the millions of visitors at
One
time the apparition chided Bernadette for using a friend’s rosary and not her
own. The Virgin Mary did not appear
much to Bernadette and would have had more important things to complain about
than that.
The
Church commands obedience to parents.
Yet the lady made Bernadette disobey her parents when they forbade her
to go to the grotto (page 71, ibid).
The Church claims that a private revelation cannot change the law for
anybody. If the pope commands one
thing and Jesus or Mary another the pope is to be obeyed for the visions are
not as certain as the dogmatic authority of the Church – which raises the
question of how they know that the visions of Jesus risen from the dead to
the apostles which are the foundation of Christianity are real. Yet it recognised
One
man who was not insane said he saw Mary in the grotto but it was really a
sinister male figure that he saw (page 60, Evidence for Satan in the Modern
World). Some saw a scary shadow in a
ball of light and were known for their honesty (ibid 58). The conclusion was that these were the
Devil. The Devil would appear as the
Virgin if he wanted to deceive. The
devil would not manifest to make it look like he was mocking the apparitions
for he would only mock visions that he made himself to get them taken for the
real holy thing.
The
Church uses holy water to frighten demons away. If the grotto had been blessed by the
presence of God’s mother how could Satan appear there?
The
Bible says that a testimony should only be taken seriously when there are at
least two witnesses. At
Bernadette
got three secrets pertaining to herself from the lady which she never
disclosed (page 77, The Appearances of the Blessed Virgin etc). The lady did not want the apparitions
welcomed by the Church when she had to have evidence withheld. Perhaps she was not Mary at all but the
beloved Elisa Latapie. This devout
girl from
Bernadette
never used the miraculous spring or its water even when she was dying. Some say she believed the spring was not
for her but she could have tried it and left it up to God. There would be no blasphemy or sin in
that. It was an insult to refuse to
let God have a chance to cure her through the waters if he wanted to. Bernadette was astonishingly sceptical of
the first miracle cures and said that healing had never been mentioned by the
vision. This girl was called stupid
and gullible. One would expect then
that if she was she would have been more open to the miracles. I would take her attitude as evidence that
she faked her vision and still won the world over which made her realise that
people would convince themselves that any lie was the truth and made her
sceptical. Or perhaps gullible people
only believe apparitions have no power to heal when they have had no
apparition.
As
for the allegedly proven miracles of healing at Lourdes which are 64 in
number they are not as above suspicion as the evidence says and as one would
think (page 177, Believing in God).
Some of the people were examined too long before their alleged cure
and there is doubt about the diagnosis of others. The Abbe Fiamma was cured of hideous ulcers
on the skin in 1908. The healing was reported
to be instant but there is no proof that they were not healed between the
last examination the date of which is unknown and his dip in the bath of holy
water at
In
a small book called Spiritual Healing we read that the famous case of John
Traynor’s cure from epilepsy and paralysis at
On
the Channel 4 documentary of 1998, The Miracle Police, it was revealed that
the disease could have been tubercular or a strange infection that burnt out
for the reports and x-rays are capable of different interpretations. The knee was not examined properly between
A
book published in 1957 called Eleven Lourdes Miracles by Dr D J West showed that
the healed people probably had not been diagnosed accurately and it was not
certain that the cures were triggered by
The
Lourdes Medical Bureau has proclaimed some cures to be impossible to explain
and other medical bodies have checked their work and found explanations for
them (page 150, Looking for a Miracle).
This is not surprising for medicine requires a lot of interpreting and
is subject to scrutiny by people with different opinions. A woman was once found to be miraculously
free of a disease and yet some years later she died from it! The Encyclopaedia Britannica reported that
American doctors found the documentation in favour of a 1976 inexplicable
cure to be equivocal and unscientific (page 151). It is strange that God says miracles are
signs meaning that he will ensure they are verified and then does little
about such false misleading claims.
Most people would believe them simply because they haven’t even
realised that there could be another side to the stories.
It
is no wonder that the medical reports that verify healings that are taken as
miracles showing the Church should canonise people invoked for the cures as
saints are highly confidential in the
The
world famous mariologist, Fr Rene Laurentin, wrote an authorative book,
Bernadette of Lourdes.
This
book gives several proofs that despite Laurentin’s belief that the visions
were real they were not supernatural.
The
fame brought to Bernadette because of the apparitions brought attention to
her father being remembered as a common thief (page 21). What right would she have to do that to her
father over visions? There is no use
in blaming her father and not her for had she kept her mouth shut her father
would not have been remembered this way.
Page
29 admits that Bernadette managed to learn her catechism before her first
communion. So she could have learned
of the Immaculate Conception before she alleged that the virgin told her
these words that was the first time she heard them.
Bernadette
initially described the apparition as something white (page 36). The apparition glided towards Bernadette
one time Bernadette asked her to write her name but nothing appeared on the
paper Bernadette held towards her (page 43).
This suggests Bernadette thought the vision was writing but the fact
that nothing was on the paper indicating hallucination. Bernadette declared to some people that she
never stated that she was seeing the Blessed Virgin (page 48). She was asked if she was seeing anything at
all and she said that she was seeing something. Seeing something – not a very comforting
answer for those who wanted it to be the Virgin. When pressed to declare what this something
was she said, “Something white”. She
called it that thing or Aquero and said it was in the shape of a little
girl. But why use a neuter word like
Aquero if it was really a girl? Was
she not really sure? Later she began
to describe the clothing of the vision indicating that she was embellishing
her story. Even later she still said
she was seeing something in the shape of a lady (page 68). Dean Peyramale asked her did she know of
fairies and witches suggesting maybe that was what she was seeing but she
denied it. He told her she was lying
for everybody had heard of such beings (page 70). Anybody with a brain will agree with him.
The
spring didn’t appear until after a hole was dug by Bernadette and then others
who helped her later (page 60-61).
There is no evidence only Bernadette’s claim that the lady told her
where the spring was before she found it.
Did she see the muddy patch and get water from it and then imagine
that the lady told her beforehand about it?
Incredibly,
the apparition is described by Bernadette as laughing when she asked the
vision her name (page 81). This
indicates hallucination.
Page
83 says Bernadette heard the words Immaculate Conception from the virgin for
the first time ever. And then it says
she was able to learn what the words meant that night. The book is honest enough to admit she would
have heard the words at Church on the feast day of the Immaculate Conception
December 8th. And there was devotion
to the Immaculate Conception due to it being a recently declared dogma by the
pope so she would have seen leaflets advertising it. The book tries to kid us that she heard the
expression only in French a language she did not speak and we are told later
that she did know some French at the time (page 92). Obviously she would have went to church
with girls on the 8th of December and they would have been saying things
like, “We must go to celebrate the Immaculate Conception”, in her
dialect. Bernadette confessed years
later that she knew of the prayer “O Mary conceived without sin pray for us”,
so she knew the word conception and that this conception of Mary’s was
sinless which takes you to the next step, the word the Church preferred for
sinless in this case was immaculate.
Mary was habitually referred to by many as the Immaculate. Bernadette was taught at school by nuns
remember.
She
said she would not tell the secrets the apparition told her to anyone and not
even the pope if he asked her for the lady forbade anyone to be told (page
94). This indicates disobedience and
the Church has the right to know all an apparition has said to be sure it
really was orthodox and therefore from God.
Bernadette
cultivated an image of being stupid but many people at the time found her
intelligent (page 99) and even many years later (page 169). She used this alleged stupidity to impress
people by her vision tales. Bernadette
even rejected all the stories about miracles she had heard about as untrue
(page 100). She could only do that if
she was sure the vision had declared no miracles would take place though
Bernadette never admitted this. She
knew anything else would be insulting to the lady.
The
fact that her parents went down in business just before the apparitions and
business improved after them but they lost their gains by being too generous
(page 102) may indicate that the motive for claiming apparitions was to bring
visitors and customers to the town for her family’s benefit. I know she wouldn’t let her family benefit
directly from the visions but that only means she may have wanted them to
earn their living and be comfortable.
No doubt the family thought they could afford to let people walk all
over them for the lady would protect them when she appeared to their daughter
and were proven wrong. The visions
destroyed their lives.
Bernadette
later threw her shoe into a strawberry garden to entice a friend to trespass
on it and steal strawberries (page 107).
This indicates a deviousness with regard to morality. She liked to make evil look good. She was not so stupid. She told her sister not to learn to read
(page 107). Believers justify this
cruelty by saying she only wanted to keep her away from improper books!
She
wouldn’t let people pray for her cure (page 229). That was a sin because the nature of prayer
is not to get favours from God but to be able to submit to him. She had a strange fear of men as a nun
saying the door must always be open when a nun is with a man (page 176). She began to contradict herself on when the
Virgin told her things imagining she was told things all on the one day (page
220).
She
said that the statue of Mary was incorrect because the left foot was not far
enough over which was strange for the vision did move according to her (page
118) and that she didn’t hold her head back as far as the statue did even
though the bend is hardly noticeable (page 230).
When
dying and to advertise herself as a saint she started claiming that the devil
was appearing to her and scaring her and that by calling on Jesus she could
get rid of him (page 223, 235). Some
doctors thought that Bernadette was normal at the time of the
apparitions. Dr Voisin was one who
thought that she was suffering from hallucinations (page 170). The Church uses medical opinion to back
itself up when it says a miracle has happened but it is selective in what
medical opinion it wants to listen to.
How dishonest!
The
lady of
The
lady of
And
there is one witness which contradicts Christ who said that at least two were
necessary (John
Conclusion
The
Church used subterfuge and deception to declare the apparitions of
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