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Good morning and welcome. I'm Bruce McGregor. She is.

Chris McGregor.

That makes us the McGregers.

And today we're joined by another Mick, a McCarran, Patricia McCarran,

Associate Professor of French at Drury University in Missouri,

longtime devotee, as she says, of St. Bernardette, has a book out on, it's called A Holy Life, St. Bernadette of Lords. And Patricia, good morning,

and welcome to the

program. Good morning, and thank you so much for having me. Patricia, I have to thank you from the

bottom of my heart for putting out this book, A Holy Life, the writings of St. Bernardet of Lords, because

I've always loved Bernadette, but I didn't know her. I thought I did, but I didn't until I

had your book, and now it's, I'm carrying it everywhere, I'm reading it every chance I get,

I go back, I thumb through it. This was a remarkable soul. You really was, and you really

warm my heart with your words there. He really was a remarkable soul, very special woman.

And we've never seen her as he really was.

We always see her interpreted or filtered through a movie or a book about her, a novel.

And those are always interpretations.

And what astonished me was to find out

just how much more interesting and inspiring and moving she is in her own words.

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