River flooding forced the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France. The shrine complex remained open to visitors. A morning Mass, however, was ...

Piece consists of a domed four-sided structure, open to the northeast via large arch. Two smaller arches are in the side walls and bells hang in these "windows." At the rear of the structure on the ...

Seventy medical cures have been investigated and officially approved by the Lourdes Office of Medical Assessments. And a “miraculous” healing of cancer, for example, is typically defined as a ...

The first of 18 apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to St. Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, happened on this day in history, Feb. 11, 1858. Soubirous, then a sickly 14-year-old peasant girl ...