Lourdes Collection (page 3)

General view, Lourdes, Pyrenees, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The Lake of Lourdes, Lourdes, Pyrenees, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Notre Dame from Mount Calvary, Lourdes, Pyrenees, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Soubirous Photo
BERNADETTE SOUBIROUS, French peasant girl of Lourdes, whose claim to have encountered Jesuss mother Mary earned her sainthood but also a lot of unwelcome attention : in 1864. Date: 1844 - 1879

The castle at Lourdes, France
Lourdes Castle, France throughout history an important military fortress in a prime geographical location. Also used as a State Prison. Date: circa 1930s

Bernadette, 1st Vision
While gathering firewood by the river with two companions, Bernadette Soubirous has her first vision of the Virgin Mary in the grotto of Massabielle Date: 11 February 1858

Lourdes, France - View of the town and Basilica

Lourdes, France - The Hotel Moderne - run by Soubirous Freres

Lourdes, France - The Castle and the Gave
Lourdes, France - The Castle and the stream ( Gave )

Lourdes, France - The Lake

Lourdes - Religious procession
Lourdes, France - Religious procession - two lines of singing girls follow a banner of Our Lady of Lourdes

Crowd at Grotto at Lourdes, France
The crowd awaiting access to the Grotto at Lourdes, France

Lourdes - The Basillica and the Pyrenees
A panoramic view of Lourdes, France, showing the Rosary Basilica of the Sanctuary of our Lady at Lourdes and the distant mountains of the Pyrenees

Lourdes - Recitation of the rosary at the Grotto

Lourdes - Pilgrims Shelter
Lourdes, France - the interior of the pilgrims shelter. Believers line the interior of the building, seated in bath chairs

Nuns in charabanc
A group of nuns in white habits in a charabanc on their way to Lourdes, France

A Tour party to Lourdes
A Tour party to the grotto of our Lady at Lourdes in a large Charabanc

Car taking believers to Lourdes
A large car taking nine pilgrims from Gavarnie to the holy grotto at Lourdes

Description of a Lourdes cure
A description on the front of a Lourdes postcard describing a cure witnessed by the author, James Gardener, sent to his daughter who was a nun

Lourdes - Splendid Hotel Beau-Sejour - somewhere for the pilgrims to stay!

France Lourdes
Pilgrims at the grotto where Mary, mother of Jesus, appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in 1859

Lourdes Procession
A procession at Lourdes, near the Grotto

Bureau De Constatations
The BUREAU DE CONSTATATIONS, where claims to have been cured are evaluated by a team of doctors

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

Oostacker-Lourdes
The virgin depicted on a card from Oostacker-Lourdes, a Belgian pilgrimage site created in emulation of Lourdes

Bernadette, March Vision
Bernadette, accompanied by a sizeable crowd, asks the apparition who she is, and obtains the reply, I am the Immaculate Conception !

Arriving at Lourdes
A trainload of pilgrims arrive at Lourdes after travelling through the night : the sick are carried into the town on stretchers or in wheelchairs

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 !

Miracle at Lourdes
At Lourdes, young Marie- Therese Lepretre is suddenly cured of Potts Disease while waiting for mass in her wheeled stretcher

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

Montreal / Church / 1884
Church of Notre Dame de Lourdes

Lourdes Bureau 2
Members of Le Bureau des Constatations Medicales consider a case under the presidency of Dr Boissarie (1836-1917) (third from right)

Vision at Lourdes
The scene at the Grotte de Massabieille when Bernadette Soubirous, gathering firewood with friends, sees the figure of a young female, later identified as the Virgin

Lourdes in 1877
The town in 1877; by now not only the basilica but several other buildings have been erected, but the riverbank is unspoilt and the souvenir shops have yet to come

Henri Lasserre
HENRI LASSERRE author of one of the earliest and most comprehensive books on Lourdes, establishing the Lourdes myth in its widely accepted form

Laurence Portrait
Monseigneur LAURENCE, bishop of Tarbes, the cleric ultimately responsible for the Catholic Church in the Lourdes region at the time of Bernadettes alleged visions

Peyramale Portrait
Monseigneur PEYRAMALE, the French cleric who was cure of Lourdes at the time of Bernadettes alleged visions, and had the difficult task of directing Church policy

Estrade Portrait
JEAN-BAPTISTE ESTRADE French tax collector, witness to many of the events at Lourdes and author of one of the first and most important books on the subject

Cross of Pic Du Jer
A few stalwart pilgrims have climbed to the summit of the Pic du Jer, where a cross has been erected, overlooking Lourdes

Blessing the Sick
Benediction du Tres-Saint Sacrament des Malades - the Blessing of the Very Holy Sacrament of the Sick, outside the Rosary

At the Piscines
Pilgrims outside les piscines - the bathing houses where the sick can plunge into the waters of the miraculous healing spring revealed by the Virgin to Bernadette

Place De LA Basilique
Pilgrims make their way across the Place de la Basilique to the Basilica which the Virgin Mary commissioned to be built in her honour

Drinking the Water
Pilgrims drink the water from the miraculous healing spring which the Virgin Mary revealed to Bernadette in 1858

Stations of Cross
Pilgrims follow the Stations of the Cross, up the hill to the Calvary

Preaching at the Rosary
Preaching to pilgrims gathered in front of the Rosary Date: circa 1905

Sick are Blessed
Priests bless the sick in front of the Rosary

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