ATDDTA (8) Lourdes of the licentious (211:22-23)
Keith
keithsz at mac.com
Wed May 2 21:47:27 CDT 2007
"[...] pilgrims who daily make their way across the desert to this
Lourdes of the licentious...."
Notre-Dame de Lourdes
"Notre-Dame de Lourdes, in the Department of Hautes Pyrenées, France,
is far-famed for the pilgrimage of which it is a centre and for the
extraordinary events that have occurred and still occur there. The
pilgrimage of Lourdes is founded on the apparitions of the Blessed
Virgin to a poor, fourteen-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubiroux."
"As a matter of fact, no natural cause, known or unknown, is
sufficient to account for the marvellous cures witnessed at the foot
of the celebrated rock where the Virgin Immaculate deigned to appear.
They can only be from the intervention of God."
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09389b.htm
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