This year marks the 160th anniversary of when Bernadette Soubirous announced to fellow villagers in the French town of Lourdes that she was experiencing visions of the Mother of God. An understandably sceptical local community at first didn’t believe the girl who would go on to be known the world over as St Bernadette of…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Fr Robert McCabe reflects on his Lourdes pilgrimage experiences A visual harmony of architecture impresses pilgrim and tourist alike who make their way to the Grotto of Massabielle. The spires, mosaics and statues which surround the golden cross and crown provide a welcome relief and spiritual focus after the distraction…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Greg Daly talks to Ireland’s man on Lourdes’s international medical bureau Belfast doctor Michael Moran, the first Irishman to serve on the International Medical Committee of Lourdes, has been a regular pilgrim to the shrine for over 20 years. “I think I was there as a child with Mum…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Lourdes poses serious challenges for honest inquiring minds, writes Greg Daly There is something inexplicable about the miracles of Lourdes, according to the Nobel-prize-winning doctor who was one of three scientists credited with having discovered HIV. A non-believer, Prof. Luc Montagnier is currently based at Shanghai Jiao Tong University…
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