Grotto Collection (page 4)

Pilgrims, Beauraing
Pilgrims at the Grotto du Pensionnat, where the Virgin Mary came down from Heaven to speak with some Belgian children

Lourdes / View in 1877
Lourdes in 1877; the Basilica has been erected above the grotto, but the esplanade and the places for obtaining holy water and candles have as yet to be constructed

Windsor / Great Park 1779
Windsor Great Park - the cascade and the grotto

Alexander Pope / Grotto
ALEXANDER POPE Entrance to the Grotto in the grounds of the English poets home at Twickenham

Sick Pilgrims, Lourdes
Sick pilgrims waiting in the courtyard of the hospital at Lourdes to be taken to the Grotto where, if the Virgin chooses, they will be cured

The Grotto at Lourdes
Pilgrims gather at the Grotto where Bernadette Soubirous met the Virgin Mary : probably no other riverside rock has attracted so many visitors !

Grottes Du Loup, Lourdes
In Les Grottes du Loup (Grotto of the Wolf) ten minutes walk from the Basilica, is a cave, The Palace of the Madonna, where a stone seems to have been carved in her likeness

Ice-Grotto in Iceland
Visitors viewing by torchlight the interior of the ice-grotto in the Surtshellir (Black Cavern), Iceland

Grotto Del Cane
A soberly dressed man with muttonchop whiskers, and a woman in shawl and hat, talk to a traveller in La Grotta del Cane (Cave of the Dog) near Pozzuoli, Italy

Invalid Pilgrims
Sick or disabled pilgrims are wheeled to the Grotto in invalid chairs - hopefully they won t need them on the way back !

The Grotto in 1875
Pilgrims at the grotto - the Spanish caption refers to the Lourdes devotion as a popular superstition

Pilgrims at the Grotto
Pilgrims at the grotto - priests, peasants and fashionably dressed folk

Lourdes Circa 1900
The area round the grotto at the end of the 19th century complete with basilica, esplanade, medical buildings, baths, fountains and so on

Lourdes / Image of Mary
Mary as supposedly seen by Bernadette Soubirous in the grotto

Bernadette / Postcard
Bernadette Soubirous, while gathering firewood, sees the Virgin Mary in the rocky grotto at Lourdes

Bernadette / Vision / Laugee
Bernadette Soubirous, while gathering firewood, suddenly sees the Virgin Mary in the grotto

Grotto of the Agony, Jerusalem
View inside the Grotto of the Agony in Jerusalem, with a man kneeling in prayer

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