The Roman Catholic shrine at Lourdes in the Hautes-Pyrénées region reopened to the public on Saturday after flooding earlier in the day caused it to close, the sanctuary said on its website. "Thanks ...

Several decrees banned pilgrimages, as authorities insisted “the interests of religion require an end should be put to the deplorable scenes which are taking place in the grotto of Massabieille, in ...

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 ...

On Feb. 11, 1858, 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous went with her sister and a friend to collect firewood by the Gave de Pau river near their hometown of Lourdes in the south of France. Two of the ...

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 ...