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 ...

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 ...

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Mass is celebrated in the grotto at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France in this 2008 file photo. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) (Jan. 4, 2011) See LOURDES-REPAIRS Jan. 4, 2011. Some 6 million ...

LOURDES, France — Watched over by French soldiers and police, Catholic pilgrims from around the world prayed together for healing and peace Monday at a grotto shrine in Lourdes where exceptional ...

A grotto patterned after the Lourdes grotto in France containing a central altar and a niche in the upper right front in which the Virgin Mary stands. She wears a blue and white electric halo made of ...