Lourdes
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Lourdes is a market town situated in the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known f
Lourdes with the Sanctuary of Our Lady
Waggon pulled by two oxen in front of Château fort de Lourdes in 1843, by Eugène de Malbos
Lourdes 1994
The Château Fort in Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes
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Our Lady of Lourdes is one of the devotional names or titles under which the Catholic Church venerates the Virgin Mary. The name commemorates a series of 18 apparitions reported by a 14-year-old girl,
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…the faithful believed her to be the Blessed Virgin Mary. She appeared 18 times, and by 1859 thousands of pilgrims were visiting Lourdes. A statue of Our Lady of Lourdes was erected at the site in 1864. During World War II, pilgrimage to Lourdes declined dramatically, but Lourdes became a focus for religious resistance…
The statue within the rock cave at Massabielle in Lourdes, where Saint Bernadette Soubirous witnessed the Blessed Virgin Mary
Studio photograph of Bernadette Soubirous (age 14) in daily attire. (c. 1 January 1858)
Painting of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous in the Grotto at Massabielle, in Lourdes, France
The venerated image of Our Lady of Lourdes was granted a decree of canonical coronation on 1 February 1876 by Pope Pius IX. The coronation ceremony was executed on 3 July 1876. During that same year, an oversized golden laurel wreath was placed at the base as well as a stellar halo being attached to the head of the image; both no longer present.