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Discover the history and the message of Lourdes. ______________. The Grotto where Bernadette saw the Virgin Mary is a place of prayer, trust, peace, respect, unity and silence.
The sanctuary of Lourdes is one of the most-visited Catholic shrines in the world, with around four million tourists coming every year. The grotto of Massabielle, which is the most famous site in the sanctuary, has hundreds of replicas around the world, known as "Lourdes grottos".
Site officiel du Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Lourdes. A la Grotte, les pèlerins prient la Vierge Marie, demandent la guérison, trouvent paix et réconfort. Welcome to the Sanctuary Notre-Dame of Lourdes
The Grotto is a place of prayer, hope, peace, respect, unity and silence. When passing through the Grotto or standing in front of it, each person has his or her own personal understanding of what it means. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI both came to pray at this Grotto. passage à la Grotte de Lourdes.
Watch on. The Grotto of Massabielle is located downtown Lourdes and is dominated by the castle. The sun never penetrates this black rock. The Grotto is 3.80 metres high, 9.50 metres deep and 9.85 metres wide. It is a crevice in a 27-metre high rock face. The wall is smooth and damp in places. The cave is thus a simple limestone cavity.
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At the heart of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Massabielle Grotto is where the Lourdes Apparitions took place. A story of faith… Step back into history. In 1858, a time when Lourdes had a population of just over 4,000, the Virgin Mary appeared to the young Bernadette Soubirous.
A Lourdes grotto is a replica of the grotto where the Lourdes apparitions occurred in 1858, in the town of Lourdes in France, now part of the sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes. Some Lourdes grottos are almost identical reproductions of the scene of the apparitions, with statues of Our Lady of Lourdes and Bernadette Soubirous in a natural or ...
