This may be my favorite film .Back in the
1980s, this was the first film that I bought on VHS and for
several years we would watch it as a family and discuss it. My son has it on DVD and he has carried on the tradition
Jenifer Junes won an Academy Awad as best actress for her
reverent portrayal on this wonderful and wondrous saint.
In a world where our herons are often comic book superheroes, I
remember a time when saints were our superheroes.
St. Bernadette
is my Wonder Woman
since the Blessed Virgin Mary revealed to her that she was the
Immaculate Conception.
The film was based o a novel by Franz Werfel' who
was a German Jewish writer who was taught by Catholic nuns where he was a child.