"I have been rightly told that it [my pride] will die fifteen minutes after I do."

      St. Bernadette Soubirous to Jeanne Védère, René Laurentin, Bernadette vous parle, 2 vols. (Paris:  Lethielleux, 1972), vol. 1, p. 354, as quoted in René Laurentin, Bernadette of Lourdes:  a life based on authenticated documents, trans. from Vie de Bernadette (Desclee de Brouwer, 1978) by John Drury (Minneapolis, MN:  Winston Press, 1979), 206.