To the end she was what she had been at the beginning, Bernadette, the poor child of Lourdes, doing always with her might what her hand found to do, little enough though that was. And now, by the infallible verdict of the Church, she is ranked as in her own right among the Shining Ones of the Company of Christ.
— R. H. J. Steuart, S.J., “Saint Bernadette Soubirous,” in Saints Are Not Sad: Studies in Sanctity from St. Paul to St. Thérèse of Lisieux, edited by F. J.Sheed
