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The pilgrimage site of Lourdes is near the Pyrenees mountains in France. Every year, it is visited by millions of pilgrims, particularly Roman Catholics. They come to Lourdes to see the site of a famous vision experienced by a young girl called Bernadette Soubirous and to be healed by its supposedly miraculous waters.

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The pilgrimage site of Lourdes is near the Pyrenees mountains in France. Every year, it is visited by millions of pilgrims, particularly Roman Catholics. They come to Lourdes to see the site of a famous vision experienced by a young girl called Bernadette Soubirous and to be healed by its supposedly miraculous waters.

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Eugenie whinfrey

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mia

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During one vision, the figure of Mary asked Bernadette to drink at the spring beneath her feet. Even though this area was muddy, the next day, the ground flowed with clear water. Bernadette was then told to have a chapel built in the exact spot where the vision had taken place.Christian pilgrims now visit and pray in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes and worship at the grotto where the vision is said to have taken place.Pilgrims also take part in a Torchlight Marian Procession which takes place every evening before a service of mass takes place in the grotto. Pilgrims also confess their sins at the Reconciliation Chapel.

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During one vision, the figure of Mary asked Bernadette to drink at the spring beneath her feet. Even though this area was muddy, the next day, the ground flowed with clear water. Bernadette was then told to have a chapel built in the exact spot where the vision had taken place.Christian pilgrims now visit and pray in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes and worship at the grotto where the vision is said to have taken place.Pilgrims also take part in a Torchlight Marian Procession which takes place every evening before a service of mass takes place in the grotto. Pilgrims also confess their sins at the Reconciliation Chapel.

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Tabitha Munday

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On the day of the 16th apparition, March 25, the
lady revealed herself as the Blessed Virgin Mary. She is also called Maria de Lourdes.

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The most important site for Roman Catholic pilgrims to Rome is Saint Peter's Basilica. Pilgrims will visit this basilica, not only in the hope of seeing or hearing the Pope, but also to visit what they believe to be the tomb of Saint Peter, which is found underneath the basilica. The feet of a 13th century bronze statue of Saint Peter have been rubbed smooth by the millions of pilgrims who have come to touch and kiss them over the years.

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The most important site for Roman Catholic pilgrims to Rome is Saint Peter's Basilica. Pilgrims will visit this basilica, not only in the hope of seeing or hearing the Pope, but also to visit what they believe to be the tomb of Saint Peter, which is found underneath the basilica. The feet of a 13th century bronze statue of Saint Peter have been rubbed smooth by the millions of pilgrims who have come to touch and kiss them over the years.

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Tabitha Munday

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Lourdes is a town in the south-west of France, where millions of Catholic pilgrims, as well as other people, go to each year.An example of the miracles that happen would be one in 1858 when a young girl name Bernadette claimed to see Our Lady Lourdes, son of Jesus Christ.

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Pilgrimage, a journey undertaken for a religious motive. Although some pilgrims have wandered continuously with no fixed destination, pilgrims more commonly seek a specific place that has been sanctified by association with a divinity or other holy personage. The institution of pilgrimage is evident in all world religions and was also important in the pagan religions of ancient Greece and Rome.

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Pilgrimage, a journey undertaken for a religious motive. Although some pilgrims have wandered continuously with no fixed destination, pilgrims more commonly seek a specific place that has been sanctified by association with a divinity or other holy personage. The institution of pilgrimage is evident in all world religions and was also important in the pagan religions of ancient Greece and Rome.

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Tabitha Munday

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Lourdes

The pilgrimage site of Lourdes is near the Pyrenees mountains in France.

Every year, it is visited by millions of pilgrims, particularly Roman Catholics. They come to Lourdes to see the site of a famous vision experienced by a young girl called Bernadette Soubirous and to be healed by its supposedly miraculous waters.

Bernadette Soubirous was born in 1844 to a poor miller. One day, while collecting firewood, Bernadette is said to have seen Mary, the mother of Jesus, dressed in white with a blue sash and a yellow rose on each foot. Bernadette is said to have witnessed the same vision many times.

During one vision, the figure of Mary asked Bernadette to drink at the spring beneath her feet. Even though this area was muddy, the next day, the ground flowed with clear water. Bernadette was then told to have a chapel built in the exact spot where the vision had taken place.

Christian pilgrims now visit and pray in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes and worship at the grotto where the vision is said to have taken place.

Pilgrims also take part in a Torchlight Marian Procession which takes place every evening before a service of mass takes place in the grotto. Pilgrims also confess their sins at the Reconciliation Chapel.

Nature and importance

Lourdes is considered a special place to visit because prayers and services are believed to bring real blessings to the pilgrim.

Pilgrims may visit to be cleansed of their sins and to be cured of their illnesses. It is believed that spring water from the grotto can heal people if they are sick. Millions of visitors come to Lourdes each year in the hope of being cured.

The International Medical Committee of Lourdes began in 1947 and passes judgement on whether or not any of the healings that take place in Lourdes are miracles. By 2015, 69 cases had been recognised as miracles by the Roman Catholic Church.

The opportunity to focus closely on their faith helps pilgrims feel secure in the knowledge that God will look after them, forgive them for their sins and even cure them of their illnesses.

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Lourdes exists because Bernadette Soubirous heard God spoke to her.

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A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs. Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their "calling" or spiritual awakening, or of their connection with the divine, to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be "housed", or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers. Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit. A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim. 

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A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs. Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their "calling" or spiritual awakening, or of their connection with the divine, to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be "housed", or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers. Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit. A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim. 

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from lula-rose regentttttt xx

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A PILGRIMAGE IS A JOURNY MADE FOR RELIGOUS REASON ALONE OR WITH OTHER CHRISTIANS TO A SACRED PLACE

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A pilgrimage is a religious journey to be made for religious reasons

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A pilgrimage is a religious journey to be made for religious reasons

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-prayer
-worship
-spiritual journey to god

grow closer to god and strengthen their faith
ella cable ((((;

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Pilgrimage is an important part of spiritual life for many Christians. By taking the time to go on pilgrimage, people can leave behind everyday concerns from back home and spend time in the presence of God as they travel to a place with special meaning. People have always gone on pilgrimage for many reasons – perhaps to say sorry to God for something they had done wrong (penance), or because they were ill and wanted God to heal them. They might be looking for an answer to a problem or difficulty, or they might be looking for peace or healing. Over the years, places have become special for different reasons, and Christians decide to visit them to become closer to God in these special places.

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Pilgrimage is an important part of spiritual life for many Christians. By taking the time to go on pilgrimage, people can leave behind everyday concerns from back home and spend time in the presence of God as they travel to a place with special meaning. People have always gone on pilgrimage for many reasons – perhaps to say sorry to God for something they had done wrong (penance), or because they were ill and wanted God to heal them. They might be looking for an answer to a problem or difficulty, or they might be looking for peace or healing. Over the years, places have become special for different reasons, and Christians decide to visit them to become closer to God in these special places.

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-The most visited pilgrimage shrine in the Christian world, Lourdes. Lourdes is the site of a Marian apparition in 1858. it isn't a ancient building its quite recent.-The pilgrimage season at Lourdes lasts from April through October, with the main day being August 15, the Marian Feast of Assumption.-Four to six million pilgrims from around the world visit the shrine each year and it is estimated that more than 200 million pilgrims have come to Lourdes since 1860!-Other important Marian apparitions have occurred in La Salette, France in 1846; Pontmain, France in 1871; Knock, Ireland in 1879; Castelpetroso, Italy in 1888; Fatima, Portugal in 1916-1917; Garabandal, Spain in 1961-1965; Zeitoun, Egypt in 1968-1968; and Medjugorje, Yugoslavia in 1981.

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-The most visited pilgrimage shrine in the Christian world, Lourdes. Lourdes is the site of a Marian apparition in 1858. it isn't a ancient building its quite recent.-The pilgrimage season at Lourdes lasts from April through October, with the main day being August 15, the Marian Feast of Assumption.-Four to six million pilgrims from around the world visit the shrine each year and it is estimated that more than 200 million pilgrims have come to Lourdes since 1860!-Other important Marian apparitions have occurred in La Salette, France in 1846; Pontmain, France in 1871; Knock, Ireland in 1879; Castelpetroso, Italy in 1888; Fatima, Portugal in 1916-1917; Garabandal, Spain in 1961-1965; Zeitoun, Egypt in 1968-1968; and Medjugorje, Yugoslavia in 1981.

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Brook Anderson

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Pilgrims may visit so their sins can be forgiven of their or to be cured of their illnesses.Some Christians believe that the water from the grotto can heal people if they are sick. Millions of visitors come to Lourdes each year in the hope of being cured.

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religious journey that people choose to go on as a way of getting closer to god they also beliver that this can heal then and remove them from sins
sarah m

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makes you closer to god, your welcome - ella cable

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makes you closer to god, your welcome - ella cable

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Lourdes is considered a special place to visit because prayers and services are believed to bring real blessings to the pilgrim.

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Lourdes is considered a special place to visit because prayers and services are believed to bring real blessings to the pilgrim.

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Milly :)

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People go on pilgrimage to places that they think are holy. Every year, thousands of people travel to Lourdes in France, a place sacred to Roman Catholics and the site of a grotto dedicated to the Virgin Mary who appeared to a young girl in a vision . A group of English schoolchildren on a pilgrimage to Lourdes explain their beliefs and talk about their faith. There then follows a debate about the nature of miracles and the place of science in religion. 

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People go on pilgrimage to places that they think are holy. Every year, thousands of people travel to Lourdes in France, a place sacred to Roman Catholics and the site of a grotto dedicated to the Virgin Mary who appeared to a young girl in a vision . A group of English schoolchildren on a pilgrimage to Lourdes explain their beliefs and talk about their faith. There then follows a debate about the nature of miracles and the place of science in religion. 

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sarah cowdrey

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The origins of its sanctity begin with the fourteen-year old girl Bernadette Soubirous.

Between February and July of 1858, Bernadette saw apparitions of a white-robed lady 18 times in a small grotto called Massabiele, near the town of Lourdes.

In the apparitions Bernadette was told to instruct the village priest to build a chapel in the grotto, which many people would soon come to visit.

On the day of the 16th apparition, March 25, the lady revealed herself as the Blessed Virgin Mary. During her ecstatic trance in the grotto, Bernadette began to dig in the earth until a small puddle of water appeared. Over the next few days the puddle enlarged into a pool and eventually became the sacred spring for which Lourdes is now so famous.

Initially only a regional pilgrimage destination, as incidents of healing began to be reported, the spring developed an international reputation for having therapeutic powers.

From 1864 to 1872 the site was mostly a regional pilgrimage destination attracting approximately 30,000 persons per year. Initially the shrine was not known for its curative power but after 1873, when incidents of healing at the spring began to be reported, the shrine rapidly developed a national and then international reputation for having therapeutic powers.

The increasing number of pilgrims eventually overcrowded the original church built above the grotto in 1876, and in 1958 an immense basilica was constructed.

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Roman Catholics usually go on pilgrimage in Lourdes. 

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Roman Catholics usually go on pilgrimage in Lourdes. 

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Megan Cowdrey

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Roman Catholics enjoy pilgrimages and are the most often people you will find there and it helps them connect and understand their beliefs with God

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Roman Catholics enjoy pilgrimages and are the most often people you will find there and it helps them connect and understand their beliefs with God

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Katie Packer

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pilgrimages are to help Christians to get closer to God this also makes their faith a lot stronger. 

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pilgrimages are to help Christians to get closer to God this also makes their faith a lot stronger. 

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Pilgrims have been visiting Walsingham in Norfolk for many centuries. Walsingham is important for Christian pilgrims because an important vision about Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, took place here.Many Christians believe that Richeldis de Faverches, a Saxon noblewoman, lived here and had a vision in the year 1061. In this vision, Richeldis believed that she was taken by Mary, the mother of Jesus, to her home in Nazareth.In this house in Nazareth, it is believed that the Angel Gabriel promised Mary that she would give birth to a son, Jesus. Richeldis was then asked in this vision by Mary to build an exact copy of this house in Walsingham. This is why Walsingham is often called the Nazareth of England.

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Pilgrims have been visiting Walsingham in Norfolk for many centuries. Walsingham is important for Christian pilgrims because an important vision about Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, took place here.Many Christians believe that Richeldis de Faverches, a Saxon noblewoman, lived here and had a vision in the year 1061. In this vision, Richeldis believed that she was taken by Mary, the mother of Jesus, to her home in Nazareth.In this house in Nazareth, it is believed that the Angel Gabriel promised Mary that she would give birth to a son, Jesus. Richeldis was then asked in this vision by Mary to build an exact copy of this house in Walsingham. This is why Walsingham is often called the Nazareth of England.

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Tabitha Munday

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There are also non-religious pilgrimages; they include for example:

seeing the Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin on the Red Square in Moscow, or

visiting the birthplace of Elvis Presley.

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Pilgrimage is a journey led by Christians

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pilgrimage helps you get closer to God on a journey of religion.

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pilgrimage helps you get closer to God on a journey of religion.

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sarah cowdrey

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The most visited pilgrimage shrine in the Christian world, Lourdes is not an ancient site but of more recent development. Lourdes is the site of a Marian apparition in 1858.

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Helps you connect with God :0

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BBC Bitesize - 4th level Religious and moral education - Pilgrimages and miracles

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A group of children debate whether miracles actually happen.

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What's happening here?
Describe what it's like to go here

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The pilgrimage site of Lourdes is near the Pyrenees mountains in France