lourdes

     

Coorinates: 43°06′N 0°03′W / 43.1, -0.05

Trivia about lourdes

  • This French town of 17,000, the home of St. Bernadette, gets about 2 million visitors a year
  • About 3 million pilgrims a year visit this cityon the Gave du Pau stream near the Pyrenees in France
  • Some 3 million pilgrims visit this small French town annually
  • Between February 11 & July 16, 1858, the Virgin Mary made a reported 18 appearances at this site
  • Some say a spring at this southwestern French town & pilgrimage site has curative powers