"How Lisieux Was Bombed: Little Flower's Sanctuaries, House, and Her Surviving Sisters Safe," by Maurice Desjardins. The Catholic Herald, October 6, 1944
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 12:28AM
Maureen O'Riordan in Carmelites of Lisieux, Mgr Germain, bombing of Lisieux, pilgrimage director, summer 1944

 

 A journalist reports on how the bombing of Lisieux affected the Carmelites and tells the circumstances of the deaths of many other nuns: he learned the story from the Pilgrimage Director, Mgr Germain, three weeks after Lisieux was liberated.  Read the story of "How Lisieux Was Bombed."

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