The Song of Bernadette (film)

The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 drama film that tells the story of Bernadette Soubirous later, Sainte Bernadette, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported eighteen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was directed by Henry King.

Franois Soubirous Roman Bohnen, a former miller now unemployed, is forced to take odd jobs and live at the city jail with his wife Anne Revere, his two sons, and his two daughters. One morning he goes to find work, and is told to take contaminated trash from the hospital and dump it in the cave at Massabielle.At the Catholic school run by the Sisters of Charity of Nevers that she and her sisters attend, fourteenyearold Bernadette Soubirous Jennifer Jones is shamed in front of the class by Sister Vauzous, the teacher Gladys Cooper, for not having learned her catechism well. Her sister Marie Ermadean Walters explains that Bernadette was out sick with asthma. Abb Dominique Peyramale Charles Bickford enters and awards the students holy cards, but is told by Sister Vauzous that Bernadette does not deserve one, because she has not studied, and that it would not be fair to the other students. Peyramale encourages Bernadette to study harder. ........

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