Today I went to visit the statue of the Virgin Mary. As expected there were a lot of people there but it still remained to feel sacred as everyone was there for the same reason. While I was there, I learnt about the history of the Lourdes and why it is such a sacred place.
There was a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous who claimed she saw a radiant vision of a woman in white during February 1858. Over the next couple of months the same lady would appear 17 more times to Bernadette, visions that the Roman Catholic Church would clarify the be authentic appearances of the Virgin Mary, which brought a series of messages that would make Lourdes one of the most famous pilgrimage places in the world and Bernadette Soubirous a saint.
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