The Last Doorbell Rung. My Memoirs (Gilberte Degeimbre)
“A Liar.” This is how the mother of Gilberte Degeimbre considered her daughter, one of the five children who witnessed the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Beauraing. Gilberte had to wait until the final apparition for the mother to finally believe. Beyond a simple autobiographical story, this edited English text, introduces the lector to the daily life of a little 9-year-old girl, who suddenly is witness to extraordinary phenomena. If the encounters with the Virgin declare her fortunate, contributing to a happiness never known, it was a veritable Calvary that she experienced between apparitions that gain our attention. Disowned by her mother, she had to face, after each manifestation of the Virgin, a bitter course of scientific and ecclesiastical interrogations. A poignant story that reveals beyond the immense joy of the apparitions, a daily Way of the Cross endured by the last seer of Beauraing.
“A Liar.” This is how the mother of Gilberte Degeimbre considered her daughter, one of the five children who witnessed the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Beauraing. Gilberte had to wait until the final apparition for the mother to finally believe. Beyond a simple autobiographical story, this edited English text, introduces the lector to the daily life of a little 9-year-old girl, who suddenly is witness to extraordinary phenomena. If the encounters with the Virgin declare her fortunate, contributing to a happiness never known, it was a veritable Calvary that she experienced between apparitions that gain our attention. Disowned by her mother, she had to face, after each manifestation of the Virgin, a bitter course of scientific and ecclesiastical interrogations. A poignant story that reveals beyond the immense joy of the apparitions, a daily Way of the Cross endured by the last seer of Beauraing.
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Last</strong> <strong>Doorbell</strong> <strong>Rung</strong><br />
“Her life was life with Jesus,” as Jean-François said to<br />
me. “It’s what she taught me,” he added while showing me<br />
the New Testament his parents offered him as a child and<br />
on which his mother wrote:<br />
Translation of the above.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Holy Bible of Canon Crampon<br />
“You shall read often a page of the Gospel and mediate on it. You will find the<br />
richness of its teaching based on the love of God and love of neighbor. I ask that<br />
you follow well these precepts. Very affectionately, your mother.”<br />
<strong>Gilberte</strong>’s faith had truly been centered on Jesus. Her<br />
attachment to Mary, came in second in regards Mary’s bond<br />
to her Divine Son, Jesus. Her immensity did not lessen.<br />
<strong>Gilberte</strong> constantly thought of this at the Hawthorn, the<br />
place where she saw the Virgin as a young girl. She said this<br />
regularly during the last years of her life at Beauraing. <strong>The</strong><br />
book she wanted to leave behind is a supplementary witness<br />
she gives to the apparitions of the Mother of God, that<br />
shook up her life and influenced her passage to eternal life.<br />
“That she may not leave me all alone at the time of death!”<br />
<strong>Gilberte</strong> would willingly say. Mary must have certainly
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