Bernardo and the Virgin

Silvio Sirias

earliest edition we have, 2004 Northwestern University Press, 2007 paperback 468 pages

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"The year is 1980, and the Sandinistas are newly in power in Nigaragua. Bernardo Martinez, a modest, unassuming tailor in the town of Cuapa, witnesses an extraordinary thing: an otherworldly glow around the statue of the Virgin Mary in the church where he volunteers as sacristan, and soon the Holy Virgin appears. She instructs Bernardo to forget his money problems and fear of ridicule and to spread her message of pea...

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Bernardo and the Virgin paperback · 2007 · Northwestern University Press · 468 pages · 9780810124271
Bernardo and the Virgin edition · 2005 · Northwestern University Press · 446 pages

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