• The National Pilgrimage to Lourdes and Rome took place between August 13 and September 13, 1948. It was the largest pilgrimage to those sites ever to leave...
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    of Lourdes (French: Sanctuaire de Notre-Dame de Lourdes; Occitan: Santuari de Nòstra Senhora de Lorda) is a Catholic Marian shrine and pilgrimage site...
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    language). As a result, Lourdes became a major place of Roman Catholic pilgrimage and of miraculous healings. Today Lourdes receives up to 5,000,000 tourists...
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    Bernadette of Lourdes, was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known...
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    Carfin Grotto (category Shrines to the Virgin Mary)
    Carfin Lourdes Grotto, a Roman Catholic shrine in Scotland dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes, was created in the early twentieth century. The "Carfin Grotto"...
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  • year, making Lourdes the second most visited Christian pilgrimage site in Europe after Rome. Paris - the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, and Basilica of...
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    Richard Cushing (category Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
    leading the National Pilgrimage to Lourdes and Rome. Prior to embarking on the trip, he joked that the closest he had ever been to Rome was South Boston's...
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    Ralph Hayes and James Connelly serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. During the National Pilgrimage to Lourdes and Rome, Wright...
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    St Peter's and St John Lateran in Rome) and that offer more immediate access to the burial places below. Some Catholic basilicas are Catholic pilgrimage sites...
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    A pilgrimage church (German: Wallfahrtskirche) is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way...
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