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
Lourdes apparitions
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The Lourdes apparitions are several Marian apparitions reported in 1858 by Bernadette Soubirous, the 14-year-old daughter of a miller, in the town of Lourdes in Southern France.
Lourdes
…Château fort, a fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its center. In 1858, Lourdes rose to prominence in France and abroad due to the Marian apparitions to the peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous (later canonized a saint by the Catholic Church for her virtuous life). Shortly thereafter, the city and its…
Contemporary depiction of Our Lady's 9th apparition at Lourdes on 25 February 1858. Painting by Virgilio Tojett in 1877 after Bernadette Soubirous' description.
Bernadette Soubirous
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
Lourdes Basilica of the Apparitions