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- Dec 14, 2019
A Luxembourg performance artist shocked onlookers by posing naked in front of the Marian shrine in Lourdes on Saturday.
Veterans taking part in the 2018 Warriors to Lourdes pilgrimage to France said the journey has positively influenced their lives and benefited those around them.
A military pilgrimage to Lourdes brought together wounded warriors in a search for spiritual and physical healing.
With the International Military Pilgrimage this week at Lourdes, the famed Marian shrine will be defined by prayer, music, young people and beer.
A French bishop on Sunday declared as a miracle the cure of a Roman Catholic nun who was an invalid for nearly four decades and recovered after making a pilgrimage to Lourdes.
Speaking to the media after his first visit to the site of alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje, Polish Archbishop Henryk Hoser gave a positive review, saying that even though there are challenges, the pilgrimage site offers many of the 2.5 million people who arrive each year things they no longer find at home, ranging from Eucharistic adoration to confession.