And, again, of Bernadette Soubirous, who, some years after she’d experienced the Marian apparitions at that grotto in France that came to be known for the healing power of its water, and she herself had entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Charity, where she’d spend the rest of her life, working in an infirmary, and as a sacristan, once said, not with chagrin but with the frankness and simplicity that was typical of her, when asked about the occurrences that had brought to her renown, “The Virgin used me as a broom to remove the dust. When the work is done, the broom is put behind the door again.”