DIE WUNDER VON LOURDES

STUTTGART, GERMANY: ARTHUR SCHOTT, 1890 UNIQUE, RARE. TWO PAGES ATTACHED NEATLY IN THE FRONT. ONE IN RED INK SIGNED 1886 LOOKS LIKE BY CARL JOSEPH. OTHER PAGE WRITTEN BY IGNATIUS FREDERICK, BISHOP OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.--NOV. 8, 1892 WHERE HE IS ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF THE BEAUTIFUL WORK AND RECOMMENDING IT TO CATHOLICS OF THE DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND. SHOULD BE WELCOME IN EVERY CATHOLIC FAMILY. CIRCA 1890. TWO SECTIONS, 467 PAGES AND 367 PAGES. VERY NICE LOOKING RED COVER, GOLD AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, WEAR SHOWS ON UPPER AND LOWER SPINE, INSIDE FRONT COVER AND BACK SHOWS AGE, SMALL STICKER STATING M. BARTH & CO. IN FRONT, TIGHT INSIDE, CLEAN WITH NO MARKINGS INSIDE. BEAUTIFUL COLOR FRONTISPIECE AND BEAUTIFUL BOOK. ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. FOLDOUT PICTURE OF LOURDES IN COLOR. LOURDES IS A French watering resort famous for miracle cures. In 1858 the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared in a grotto to the peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879), later canonized as St. Bernadette in 1933. A marble tablet at Lourdes records the apparition: Dates of the Eighteen apparitions and words of the Blessed Virgin in the year of grace 1858. In the hollow of the rock where her statue is now seen the Blessed Virgin appeared to Bernadette Soubirous Eighteen times: Ignatius Frederick Horstmann (December 16, 1840 ¿ May 13, 1908) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Cleveland from 1892 until his death in 1908. WONDERFUL COLLECTOR ITEM. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.