We are excited to be hosting a free Lourdes Virtual Pilgrimage Experience on Thursday, August 22 at 10:30am and 6pm. This 2-hour live interactive experience will be guided by Our Lady of Lourdes Hospitality, North American Volunteers, the first Lourdes Hospitality of the Americas. Not everyone can travel to Lourdes, but the Virtual Pilgrimage can make it possible to experience this same peace and healing, and even the opportunity to receive a plenary indulgence!
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In 1858, the Mother of God appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous in the grotto cave in Lourdes, France. She directed young Bernadette to “go to the spring, drink of it and wash yourself there.” Miracles happened. She told Bernadette: Penance, penance, penance, pray for sinners. Conversions happened. She asked for a chapel to be built and for people to come in procession. Lourdes became well known and is well loved as a holy place of pilgrimage, prayer, peace and healing.