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Lourdes (Gascon language: Lord) is the most visited Catholic pilgrimage site in the world, located in south-western France in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées. The city is. 15,000 inhabitants (2003).
The town lies at the foothills of the Pyrenees, at an altitude of 420 m above nm, being crossed by the river Gave de Pau. The town is a museum with exhibits of the Protestant religion and the paintings of Franz Schrader French painter, cartographer and student of nineteenth-century Pyrenean mountains. Lourdes is located south of the tip Pic Schrader (3177 m).
In 1858 after Bernadette Soubirous is said to be seen near the "Grotta Massabielle" several times on the Virgin Mary as an appearance as a woman dressed in white. Women in developing then introduced himself as the "Immaculate Conception" (Latin Immaculate conceptio). After this shooting water from a spring in the grotto, Bernadette and the Virgin instructed to Soubrious founded a church there. Today the church is one of the most important places of pilgrimage for Christians, Catholics, spring giving the miraculous powers of healing diseases as thousands of testimonies. Bernadette Soubrious on December 8, 1933 is declared sacred and is now rot in the convent of Neves.
Lourdes | Lourdes (Gascon language: Lord) is the most visited Catholic pilgrimage site in the world, located in south-western France in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées. The city is. 15,000 inhabitants (2003).
The town lies at the foothills of the Pyrenees, at an altitude of 420 m above nm, being crossed by the river Gave de Pau
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