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Statue of The Blessed Virgin
in The Grotto of Massabielle, Lourdes.
Photo: 1 May 2005.
Source: Own work.
Author: © Manuel González Olaechea y Franco
(Wikimedia Commons)
Français: Basilique Notre Dame du Rosaire et Basilique de l'Immaculée Conception au dessus
de la Grotte des Apparitions, et Gave de Pau, à Lourdes, France.
English: The Basilica of Our Lady of The Rosary and The Basilica of The Immaculate Conception, above the Grotto of The Marian Apparitions to Saint Bernadette, at Lourdes, France.
Photo: 15 August 2009.
Source: Own work.
Author: Roland Darré.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Our Lady of Lourdes and Healing.
On 11 February 1858, our Blessed Mother appeared to a 14 year old girl named, Bernadette Soubirous, in a shallow cave or grotto in Lourdes, France, known as Massabielle. All together, the young visionary of Lourdes would have 18 apparitions of our Lady. The Mother of God would ask that a chapel be built there and that religious processions be held, as well as prayers for sinners. When asked to reveal her identity, Our Lady said that she was the Immaculate Conception. And, of course, a wondrous spring of water was revealed that still brings miraculous cures to this day.
Certainly, many are familiar with the apparitions at Lourdes and the miracle of healing brought to many with corporal infirmities. But our Lady also brought the spiritual healing of her Divine Son. Modern man, infected with the errors of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and even atheism, had sought to perfect the world using material means. Spiritual problems, however, can only be solved through spiritual solutions. Our Lady provided such solutions from that shallow cave of Massabielle. From this cave . . . this grotto in Lourdes, healing, restoration, and renewal will come to modern man.
On 11 February 1858, our Blessed Mother appeared to a 14 year old girl named, Bernadette Soubirous, in a shallow cave or grotto in Lourdes, France, known as Massabielle. All together, the young visionary of Lourdes would have 18 apparitions of our Lady. The Mother of God would ask that a chapel be built there and that religious processions be held, as well as prayers for sinners. When asked to reveal her identity, Our Lady said that she was the Immaculate Conception. And, of course, a wondrous spring of water was revealed that still brings miraculous cures to this day.
Certainly, many are familiar with the apparitions at Lourdes and the miracle of healing brought to many with corporal infirmities. But our Lady also brought the spiritual healing of her Divine Son. Modern man, infected with the errors of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and even atheism, had sought to perfect the world using material means. Spiritual problems, however, can only be solved through spiritual solutions. Our Lady provided such solutions from that shallow cave of Massabielle. From this cave . . . this grotto in Lourdes, healing, restoration, and renewal will come to modern man.
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