Grotte de Massabielle
We visited Lourdes on our way back from Pau a couple of weeks ago. Lourdes is a town of about 15 000 people which was made famous by a 14 year old peasant girl Bernadette who saw the Virgin Mary in a series of visions that came to her in a grotto. These days around 5million visitors come every year from all over the world many of them terminally ill and praying for a cure. There has been 67 medically certifiable cures over the years.
It was interesting to see what Lourdes was all about as I’d heard a lot about it over the years and wanted to see what it was like. There is a huge tourist complex built around the cave (Grotte de Massabielle) where Bernadette had her vision and there’s an ornately decorated church built right over the top of the cave.
It was interesting to see what Lourdes was all about as I’d heard a lot about it over the years and wanted to see what it was like. There is a huge tourist complex built around the cave (Grotte de Massabielle) where Bernadette had her vision and there’s an ornately decorated church built right over the top of the cave.
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