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SICK OF DEATH

Bernardita, after the apparitions, wanted to be religious, but did not see this possibility very close, since she was frequently sick with asthma and had vomiting of blood, due to the tuberculosis that made its appearance. Sometimes, asthma attacks were so strong that he would say: Open my chest! 95. On the other hand, he did not know why Congregation decided and did not have the dowry required to enter.  On April 20, 1862, after visiting the grotto, he became seriously ill and was in mortal danger. He was given the extremeuntion

Father Pomian gave him a small particle of the host to commune and, at that time of communion, he felt better and asked for water from the grotto. She drank a few drops and exclaimed: I am cured. The next morning the doctor returned, thinking she would already be dead, and found her completely healthy. He believed it was due to the remedy he had recommended, but was told he had not taken it.

On this event, the parish priest, Father Peyramale, wrote a letter to Canon Fourcade on April 30, 1862. In it he says: Bernardita had a very serious pneumonia for days. Last Sunday, April 27, she was very unwell, giving many worries to the sisters. They reproached themselves for having let her go to the grotto, where they thought she had caught evil. Monday worsened

She coughed a lot and breathed with great difficulty. Immediately after receiving communion, Bernardita felt healed. She experienced relief, as if a mountain had been taken from her chest. The alarming symptoms he had disappeared and yesterday morning he received the doctor of the house, Dr. Balencie. The doctor was amazed. He attributed the cure to the effectiveness of the remedies he had prescribed. But to her bad luck, Bernardita had not taken them and had no convalescence

PREPARING THE ENTRANCE

 On September 25, 1863, the Bishop of Nevers visited it. She was at the time cleaning vegetables in the kitchen. The bishop spoke to her, who replied in correct French.

The bishop asked him: – What do you plan to make of your future?  – «Well, nothing». 

– How about that? Something has to be done in this world.  – «I’m here with the sisters.»  – But it’s here on an interim basis.  – «I wouldn’t mind staying forever.» 

– But you are not a sister, an indispensable condition to stay permanently. Would you like to find yourself in the world a simple and convenient occupation?  – «Ah, that’s not it.»  – Why don’t you become a sister?  – «You know I am poor and will never have the necessary dowry. Besides, I’re useless

Recently in the kitchen I realized that it was useful.

 Think about it and tell it to the Mother Superior so that she may say it to the Mother General or to me; and I will take care of the rest Bernardita herself, on her own, on August 15, the feast of the Assumption, went to talk to Mother Alexandrine and said: Dear Mother I am determined to become a religious and, if the Reverend Mother General wants to accept me, I will be very happy to enter this Congregation

ENTRY INTO RELIGIOUS LIFE

 He was 22 years and three months old. He entered the Congregation of Charity and Christian Instruction of Nevers He was administered the extremeuntion in view of his very serious condition and expressed his desire to make the religious profession in articulo mortis. The Mother General consulted her counselors and they agreed to receive her. One of the days, the doctor assured that it would not happen that night. They urgently notified the bishop, who came to take up the profession personally on October 25, 1866