Nearby is a statue of St. Bernadette Soubirous, the young girl from Lourdes who saw the Blessed Virgin 18 times in 1858. In 1958, the Grotto was proclaimed a Public Oratory and National Shrine by Cardinal Shehan, Archbishop of Baltimore.
About the Grotto Shrine. The Emmitsburg Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, a Catholic shrine devoted to Our Blessed Mother Mary, is a place of worship, pilgrimage, evangelization and reconciliation.
Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in honour of the Marian apparitions that reportedly occurred in 1858 in the vicinity of Lourdes in France.
He intended the spot as a place of prayer and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. From those humble origins was born what is today known as the National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes, located on the campus of Mount St. Mary’s.
St. Mary of Lourdes Grotto In 1858, in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains of southern France near a town called Lourdes, the Blessed Virgin appeared in a small cave by the River Gave, the Cave of Massabielle.
In 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared 18 times between February 11 and July 16 to young Bernadette Soubirous in the grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes. Born at the the mill of Boly (in the city of Lourdes) on January 7, 1844, the young visionary made her first communion on June 3, 1858, on the feast of Corpus Christi, shortly before the last …
Live from the Holy Grotto in Lourdes, France where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette. Spend some time with the Immaculate Conception.
Coming to reflect before the body of Bernadette, the pilgrim sees, to-day, the fact that 18 times looked on the Immaculate Heart of Virgin Mary – Our Lady of Lourdes, the hands that, at the request of the Blessed Virgin, had scraped the ground and allowed the spring to flow at the back of the Grotto, the lips that related the words of the …
Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto is an exact replica of the famous grotto at Lourdes, France, where Blessed Bernadette’s enraptured gaze recalls that day when she first saw the fair and bright vision of Mary Immaculate.
Bishop Joseph Perry of Chicago, Illinois, will be the celebrant at a Solemn Pontifical Mass, with choir and orchestra, at Assumption Grotto, on Sunday, November 18, 2018 at the Noon Mass (the 9:30 will be an OF Mass, without the…
He intended the spot as a place of prayer and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. From those humble origins was born what is today known as the National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes, located on the campus of Mount St. Mary’s.
Coming to reflect before the body of Bernadette, the pilgrim sees, to-day, the fact that 18 times looked on the Immaculate Heart of Virgin Mary – Our Lady of Lourdes, the hands that, at the request of the Blessed Virgin, had scraped the ground and allowed the spring to flow at the back of the Grotto, the lips that related the words of the …
In 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared 18 times between February 11 and July 16 to young Bernadette Soubirous in the grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes. Born at the the mill of Boly (in the city of Lourdes) on January 7, 1844, the young visionary made her first communion on June 3, 1858, on the feast of Corpus Christi, shortly before the last …
Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in honour of the Marian apparitions that reportedly occurred in 1858 in the vicinity of Lourdes in France.
Pilgrimage to the National Shrine, Grotto of our Lady of Lourdes at Mount St. Mary’s, Emmitsburg, MD Started by Rev. Walter Sempko in 1987, the Annual Pilgrimage for World Peace will take place on Thursday, August 3, 2017.
Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto is an exact replica of the famous grotto at Lourdes, France, where Blessed Bernadette’s enraptured gaze recalls that day when she first saw the fair and bright vision of Mary Immaculate.
O Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy, you are the refuge of sinners, the health of the sick, and the comfort of the afflicted. You know my wants, my troubles, my sufferings. By your appearance at the Grotto of Lourdes you made it a privileged sanctuary where your favors are given to people …
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Suffice it to say, going to Lourdes, France, for the 150th anniversary of the Blessed Virgin Mary's apparitions to St. Bernadette is not in everyone's budget. So Fr. Anthony Gramlich, MIC, rector of the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy, in Stockbridge, Mass., had an idea.
On this day all earth and all paradise join in naming you happy and Blessed; Virgin Mary, blessed are you.