Le Pelerinage de Lourdes §37

³⁷ But the Mother of God could come to her children only as a messenger of forgiveness and hope. Already the water flows at her feet: " Omnes sitientes, venite ad aquas, et haurietis salutem a Domino ." At this spring where gentle Bernadette was the first to go to drink and wash, all miseries of soul and body will flow away. "And I went and washed and I see," the grateful pilgrim will be able to reply, in the words of the blind man of the Gospel.