Lourdes
Pyrenean miracle site
Lourdes is a town in southwestern France, site of a Catholic shrine where the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to a peasant girl in 1858.
It has become one of the world's major pilgrimage destinations, visited annually by millions seeking miraculous healing at its spring waters: They made a pilgrimage to Lourdes hoping for a cure.
Lourdes is also used as a given name.
- Virgin MaryMother of Christ
- Immaculate ConceptionDoctrine of Mary's sinless origin
- Our LadyMarian honorific title
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
grotto · visions · messages · 1858 · eighteen · ecstasy · revelation · mystical
Sacred devotional place
- grottoSmall scenic cavern
- pilgrimsReligious journey takers
- journeyTravel from place to place
- faithfulConsistently loyal and true
procession · candlelight · vigil · Mass · prayer · rosary · sacrament · worship
Traditional female given name
- faithTrust without proof
- prayerAddress to deity
- rosaryBeaded prayer counter
- venerationProfound admiring respect
piety · reverence · holiness · sacred · blessed · spirituality · litany · sanctity
Remedies that heal
- miraclesSupernatural extraordinary events
- springRecoiling metal spiral
- waterClear essential liquid
- bathsFull-body immersions in water
testimonies · recovery · remission · intercession · unexplained · faith healing · invalids · sick
Bernadette
- Virgin MaryMother of Christ
- Immaculate ConceptionDoctrine of Mary's sinless origin
- Our LadyMarian honorific title
visionary · grotto · visions · messages · 1858 · eighteen · ecstasy · revelation · mystical · supernatural
shrine
Sacred devotional place
faithful · procession · candlelight · vigil · Mass · prayer · rosary · sacrament · worship · relics
Marian
Traditional female given name
veneration · piety · reverence · holiness · sacred · blessed · spirituality · litany · sanctity · chaplet
cures
Remedies that heal
baths · testimonies · recovery · remission · intercession · unexplained · faith healing · invalids · sick · disabled
Immaculate Conception
Doctrine of Mary's sinless origin
gates · river · altar · tabernacle · sacristy · crypt · stained glass · mosaics · spires
France
Western European republic
- PyreneesFranco-Spanish mountain range
- communeShared-living community
- mountainsTall elevated landmasses
foothills · southwest · funicular · tourism · hotels · shops
- French SanctuariesNotre-Dame de Paris, Sacre-Coeur, Mont Saint-Michel
- Pilgrimage SitesFatima, Canterbury Cathedral, Montserrat, Padua
- Marian ShrinesFatima, Guadalupe, Akita, Montserrat, Amsterdam
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
- FranceParis, Notre-Dame, Lyon, croissant, Toulouse
- Catholic Miraclesapparitions, Fatima, stigmata, weeping statues, incorruptibles
LourdesMayo Clinic
Renowned Minnesota medical institution
research hospital · intensive care unit · operating room · hospital · Johns Hopkins Hospital
LourdesLas Vegas
Nevada's gambling capital
casino · nightclub · red-light district · Wall Street · shopping mall