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Commune of Lourdes
Country      France
Région Midi-Pyrénées
Département Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement Argelès-Gazost
Canton Chief town of 2 cantons
Intercommunality Communauté
de communes
du Pays de Lourdes
Mayor
Term of office
Jean-Pierre Artiganave
2001-2008
Land area¹ 37 km²
Population²
(1999)
15,203
Population density
(1999)
411 pers./km²
Longitude 0' 05° W
Latitude 43° 1' N
Altitude average:
minimum: 343 m
maximum: 960 m
INSEE Code 65286
Postal code 65100
1 French Land Register data, which exclude lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers.

2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personnel).

Statue of the Blessed Virgin of Lourdes Our Lady of Lourdes Basilica Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lourdes

Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan) is a town in the Hautes-Pyrénées département in France. It is the largest Catholic religion pilgrimage location in France. It is situated in the southwest of the country in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains, and has about 17,000 inhabitants.

Contents

  • 1 History
  • 2 Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
  • 3 See also
  • 4 References
  • 5 External links

History

In February 1858, it is claimed the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a 14-year-old girl called Bernadette Soubirous (now St. Bernadette) in the remote Grotto of Massabielle. Many people dispute this claim. A statue of the Madonna of Lourdes was erected at the site in 1864. Soon the previous chapel structure was replaced with a pilgrimage basilica. Bernadette Soubirous entered the Monastery of Nevers in 1866 and was canonized a Saint in 1933.

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes

Yearly from March to October the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes is the place of mass pilgrimages from Europe and other parts of the world. The spring water from the grotto is believed by some to possess healing properties. An estimated 200 million people have visited the shrine since 1860 [1], and the Roman Catholic Church has officially "recognized" 67 miracle healings though others dispute this. Especially impressive are candlelight and sacrament processions. Tours from all over the world are organised to visit the Sanctuary. The pilgrimage site is visited by millions of Catholics each year. Connected with this pilgrimage is often the consumation of or bathing in the so called Lourdes Water which wells out of the Grotto - the cave in which the apparitions allegedly took place in 1858.

See also

  • Miracles connected with Lourdes
  • The Virgin Mary shrines
  • Marian apparitions
  • Bernadette Soubirous
  • Our Lady of Lourdes is a church and school outside of Stayton, Oregon named in honor of the Lourdes apparition.
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in St. Francis, Wisconsin.

References

  • The Miracle Joint at Lourdes, "Essays" by Woolsey Teller, Copyright 1945 by The Truth Seeker Company, Inc.
  • History of Our Lady of Lourdes

External links

  • The Official Website of the Lourdes Sanctuaries
  • Our Lady of Lourdes- yesterday Feb 11th
  • The Song of Bernadette
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