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Our Lady of Lourdes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Above the lovely valley of Emmitsburg, situated high on the Mountainside, where nature displays itself in all its wild and picturesque glory, sits the National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes, a shrine which traces its linage to the very beginnings of the spread of Catholicism in America.
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On 11 February 1858, aged 14, while she was out gathering firewood with her sister and another friend at the grotto of Massabielle outside Lourdes, Bernadette saw the first of 18 visions of a lady who was later accepted by the Church as being the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Grotto of Massabielle: History, description, photos and visitor information for Grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes, Midi-Pyrenees, France. ... View over the Grotto (below the basilica, left) and the River Gave in Lourdes. Photo Br Lawrence Lew, OP.; Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes at the Grotto of Massabielle. Beneath are Mary...
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Lourdes, France, 1858 – Fourteen year old Bernadette receives a message for the entire world from the Blessed Virgin herself. Lourdes – the healing waters flow from the grotto, carrying a message, and a promise ...
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Oblate Missions headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is responsible for providing funds to help to provide aid to the ... Our Lady of Lourdes/ Tepeyac de San Antonio - Grotto of the Southwest on Facebook...
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To the west of Lourdes, beyond the river Gave, is an old rock promontory, jutting up from the ground. This rock was known locally as the 'Big Rock', or Massabieille as it is called in the local patois. In those days, it was a dark and deserted place, always quiet and used as ... Photograph Of Bernadette Taken At The Grotto...
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