The Night Saint Bernadette Came to Visit me!

By Joe McClane

I had an interesting dream last night/this morning…. I dreamt I was in an old theater room. It was a room like the old town hall rooms you would find in 100 plus year old New England buildings, with wooden floors, old beams, and a stage like in a school, about 3 and half feet off the ground.  The lighting in the room was reddish brown… like the wood floors, walls, and stage; sort of a warm glow. I didn’t look out any windows but it felt as though it was cold and dark outside. There was something going on the stage, but I don’t know what it was as I never looked to see. I was in the back right corner looking on the entire room as if I were on the outside looking in. There was an audience sitting in old wooden fold up chairs in front of the stage, in the center of the large room, with a roof support pillar sitting in the middle of the chairs, which blocked part of the view.  To my right, along the wall, was a couch and on it was sitting my mother.

In the audience I saw a woman that caught my eye so I started to walk forward a few feet to get a better look. She was right next to that roof support pillar so I couldn’t see where I was standing. When I moved up I saw her… I said to myself its Bernadette Soubirous! I immediately got on my knees.  It was her face… I recognized her face as Bernadette from pictures I had seen a few weeks ago of her incorruptible body.  I turned around to my mother on the couch, and said, “I just saw Bernadette Soubirous “!  Bernadette was holding the Christ child, wearing a cream colored shawl with what looked like her hair in a bun wrapped in a white cloth of some kind.  I don’t recall exactly the color of her dress but I seem to think it was a brown or grey color, and floor length. I sat there on my knees just staring at her with the child and being enamored with them. Then what ever was going on stage ended and the audience got up to leave. Bernadette, who never looked my way, got up and headed toward the stage. She then exited the stage through a door, on the right, that led into a side hallway, on my side of the room, and stood in a long, dark hallway, with a soft light coming from the other end, with her back to me, and the room. (more…)