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.
A: In 1858 St. Bernadette of Lourdes had a series of visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary near the town. Our Lady, the Virgin Mary, appeared 18 times to a 14 year old girl named Bernadette Soubirous. She is now St. Bernadette and millions of people visit Lourdes because of those events.ernadette, born Marie Bernarde Soubirous, was the eldest of four surviving children of Francois FranÃ§ois soubirous and his Wife Loisa. LoÃ¯sa Casterot casterÃ²t, on, february 11 1858 while gathering firewood with her sister and, a family friend she had an apparition of a beautiful young lady near The, Town. of lourdes france