THE SONG OF BERNADETTE BY FRANZ WERFEL.

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This classic story, recountng, the miraculous apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourde, France, is one of the greatesd historical novels of simple and triumphant religious faith published in the twentieth century. Franz Werfel, the Jewish author, was a highly respected literary figure in Vienna and an outspoken critic of Hitler when the Nazis occupied Austria in 1938. He escaped to France and found solace and help in the town of Lourdes, where he leared about Bernadette and the 1858 apparitions. When the Nazis invaded France and began deporting Jews to death camps, he was forced to flee again. As he narrowly escaped, he promised God that if he made it safely to America he would "sing the song" of Bernadette. Paper.