Yesterday I drove the motorhome 151 miles from Palm Desert, California to Yuma, Arizona. Most of the first one-half of the trip was on California Highway 111 along the eastern shore of the Salton Sea and directly atop the San Andreas Fault and 200 feet below sea levelâ¦
Lourdes, France. A gentle statue of the Virgin Mary overlooks the Sanctuary at Lourdes. Photo Br Lawrence Lew, OP. Lourdes (pronounced lourde or lourdz) is a small town in the Hautes-PyrÃ©nÃ©es dÃ©partement in southwest France. It is the largest Catholic pilgrimage destination in France and one of the most popular Catholic shrines in the world. Lourdes lies 497 miles south of Paris in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains.
Lourdes, France. This French town is the most famous healing shrine in the world and one of the most-visited of all pilgrimage sites. When a young servant girl named Bernadette Soubirous claimed to see a radiant vision of a woman in white on February 11, 1858, Lourdes was a small market town virtually unknown to the larger world.