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On top of each of her feet was a pale yellow rose, the same colour as her rosary beads.
- St Bernadette describing Mary
Our Lady of Lourdes in the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli on the Piazza del Popolo in Rome.
A neon-lit shrine for Our Lady of Lourdes next to the entrance to a house in Naxxar, Malta.
Pilgrims filling bottles with water from the spring in the grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes.
The location of the spring was described to Bernadette Soubirous by Mary in February 1858. Since that time millions of pilgrims have followed Mary’s instruction to “drink at the spring and wash in it”.
Although never actively encouraged by the Church, Lourdes water has become a focus of the pilgrimage to the French shrine. The water is believed to possess healing power. Miraculous springs are also found at many other Marian shrines around the world.
Our Lady of Lourdes in the church of Santa Marija ta’ Gesu in Valletta, Malta.
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, which commemorates the apparition of Mary to the 14 year old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes in 1858.
Nowadays the French town is one of the world’s most popular Marian shrines.
Happiness
I cannot promise you happiness in this world, only in the next.
- Mary in Lourdes, 1858
Madonna ta’ Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes in the Franciscan church of Our Lady of Jesus, also known as Ta’ Ġieżu, in Valletta, Malta.
