The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant | 
Caleb's Crossing
by Geraldine Brooks | 
The Dovekeepers
by Alice Hoffman | 
The Secret Magdalene
by Ki Longfellow | 
Great lion of God
by Taylor Caldwell | 
The Edge of Sadness
by Edwin O'Connor | 
King Jesus
by Robert Graves | 
Stone Tables
by Orson Scott Card | 
Quarantine
by Jim Crace | 
Saints
by Orson Scott Card | 
In the Shadow of the Ark
by Anne Provoost | 
The Quiet Light
by Louis De Wohl | 
The Diary of a Country Priest
by Georges Bernanos |
The Restless Flame
by Louis De Wohl | 
Depths of Glory
by Irving Stone | 
Julian
by Gore Vidal | 
The Haj
by Leon Uris | 
Jerusalem Maiden
by Talia Carner | 
I Am Forbidden
by Anouk Markovits | 
The Maid
by Kimberly Cutter |
This is the classic work that tells the true story surrounding the miraculous visions of St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France in 1858. Werfel, a highly respected anti-Nazi writer from Vienna, became a Jewish refugee who barely escaped death in 1940, and wrote this moving story to fulfill a promise he made to God. While hiding in the little village of Lourdes, Werfel felt the Nazi noose tightening, and realizing that he and his wife might well be caught and executed, he made a promise to God to write about the song of Bernadette that he had been inspired by during his clandestine stay in Lourdes. Though Werfel was Jewish, he was so deeply impressed by both Bernadette and the happenings at Lourdes, that his writing has a profound sense of Catholic understanding.