How many miracles have happened in Lourdes?

Answer 1

Lourdes, France is a pilgrimage site for many Catholics because the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared there in the late 1850s. Approximately 6 million pilgrims are believed to visit Lourdes each year.

Answer 2

A:That depends on how many you think were genuine miracles.Answer Throughout the past 2,000 years of history, Our Blessed Lady has appeared numerous times, with the same message every time: that people need to repent of their sins, believe in her Son, pray, and reform their lives. When Our Blessed Lady does appear, it is used to an innocent who has, as yet, been untouched by the "world, the flesh, and the Devil." Lourdes was one of these incidents. At Lourdes, Our Blessed Lady appeared to Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, a young French girl, who later became a religious sister. One of the outstanding differences with her appearance at Lourdes were the spring, which was not there before, and the healing miracles which have occurred there right from the beginning.Because of these miracles, people continue to pilgrimage to Lourdes and pray for the Virgin�s intercession.There have been uncounted miracles at Lourdes over the years. For the most part these are miracles which cannot be seen - spiritual and mental healings. However, the most amazing part, since the very beginning, has been the physical healings, of which there have been literally thousands. Because of skeptics and others who are wont to disparage this, the Church has been very cautious about proclaiming real miracles, and the unbelievable strictness of the requirements for a "complete physical healing miracle" mean that very few are actually accounted miracles on the Church's official lists: for the miracle to be recorded by the Church, it must be completely unexpected, the patient must be taking no medications or other treatments which might have effected the cure; the cure must be total and lasting, and totally unexplainable. Of the nearly 7,000 recorded miracles, only 67 have been validated as meeting all of the Vatican's stringent requirements. (See the third link at the bottom) But if you talk to any serious pilgrim who has gone to Lourdes with a real problem for healing, 90% of the time they will tell you that, for them, they had a real healing somehow. The 67 cases are indications beyond any possible skeptic, proving that Our Blessed Lady is indeed praying to God to work these miracles, and everyone who has gone and asked God for healing is touched in some way. Some of the cures have been inexplicitly worked on non-believers who weren't even aware of where they were.

Answer 3

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Lourdes is one of many Catholic shrines associated with alleged apparitions of the virgin Mary. When a location becomes known for having been visited by the Holy Mother, it becomes a place of pilgrimage and donations to the local church quickly allow for the construction of impressive shrines and for the betterment of the church and its community. In the case of Lourdes, Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old peasant girl, told her mother that she had seen a 'lady' in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from Lourdes, while she was gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Similar appearances of the lady were reported on seventeen further occasions that year, and many Christians believe the sightings to have been of Mary mother of Jesus.

Lourdes is now a site for Catholic pilgrimage, receiving up to 5 million pilgrims a year. It renowned for its cures and approximately 7000 people have sought to have cures confirmed as miracles, but only 68 of these have been declared as scientifically inexplicable by both the Lourdes Medical Bureau and the Catholic Church.

See the related link for a list of these 68 confirmed instances.

Answer 4

Lourdes is the place where, in 1858, a young girl, Bernadette Soubirous, supposedly saw apparitions of the Virgin Mary on 18 separate occasions. The local clergy ridiculed her claims but then, as pilgrims began to arrive, accepted them as true. People of medieval and early modern times expected that wherever Mary's apparition was seen, one could expect the possibility of cures, and Lourdes became renowned for its miracle cures. It receives over 80,000 pilgrims a year, of whom approximately 7000 people in more than a century have sought to have cures confirmed as miracles. Only 68 of these have been declared as scientifically inexplicable by both the Lourdes Medical Bureau and the Catholic Church.

If all the apparitions were real and if at least 68 people were miraculously cured, then at least 68 miracles have occurred at Lourdes.However, only Bernadette was ever able to see the visions she reported, and she did not even associate them with the Virgin Mary until told so by adults around her. Although she was sometimes accompanied by others when she saw these apparitions, they never experienced the visions Bernadette saw. This must cast reasonable doubt on whether the visions were real. The truth of the apparitions of Lourdes is not an article of faith for Catholics.

As for the 68 reported cures, the number is so small as to suggest that these cases (and many more) were likely to have been cured or gone into remission anyway. There is no reason to believe that any miracles have taken place at Lourdes.

For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/catholicism/visions-of-the-virgin-mary

Answer 5

Lourdes is one of many Catholic shrines associated with alleged apparitions of the virgin Mary. When a location becomes known for having been visited by the Holy Mother, it becomes a place of pilgrimage and donations to the local church quickly allow for the construction of impressive shrines and for the betterment of the church and its community. In the case of Lourdes, Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old peasant girl, told her mother that she had seen a 'lady' in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from Lourdes, while she was gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Similar appearances of the lady were reported on seventeen further occasions that year, and many Christians believe the sightings to have been of Mary mother of Jesus.

Lourdes is now a site for Catholic pilgrimage, receiving up to 5 million pilgrims a year. It renowned for its cures and approximately 7000 people have sought to have cures confirmed as miracles, but only 68 of these have been declared as scientifically inexplicable by both the Lourdes Medical Bureau and the Catholic Church.

For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/catholicism/visions-of-the-virgin-mary

Answer 6

Throughout the past 2,000 years of history, Our Blessed Lady has appeared numerous times, with the same message every time: that people need to repent of their sins, believe in her Son, pray, and reform their lives. When Our Blessed Lady does appear, it is used to an innocent who has, as yet, been untouched by the "world, the flesh, and the Devil." Lourdes was one of these incidents.

At Lourdes, Our Blessed Lady appeared to Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, a young French girl, who later became a religious sister. One of the outstanding differences with her appearance at Lourdes were the spring, which was not there before, and the healing miracles which have occurred there right from the beginning. Because of these miracles, people continue to pilgrimage to Lourdes and pray for the Virgin’s intercession.

There have been uncounted miracles at Lourdes over the years. For the most part these are miracles which cannot be seen - spiritual and mental healings. However, the most amazing part, since the very beginning, has been the physical healings, of which there have been literally thousands. Because of skeptics and others who are wont to disparage this, the Church has been very cautious about proclaiming real miracles, and the unbelievable strictness of the requirements for a "complete physical healing miracle" mean that very few are actually accounted miracles on the Church's official lists: for the miracle to be recorded by the Church, it must be completely unexpected, the patient must be taking no medications or other treatments which might have effected the cure; the cure must be total and lasting, and totally unexplainable.

Of the nearly 7,000 recorded miracles, only 67 have been validated as meeting all of the Vatican's stringent requirements. (See the third link at the bottom) But if you talk to any serious pilgrim who has gone to Lourdes with a real problem for healing, 90% of the time they will tell you that, for them, they had a real healing somehow. The 67 cases are indications beyond any possible skeptic, proving that Our Blessed Lady is indeed praying to God to work these miracles, and everyone who has gone and asked God for healing is touched in some way. Some of the cures have been inexplicitly worked on non-believers who weren't even aware of where they were.

Answer 7

millions visit every year and from 1869-2009 approximatly 200million pilgrims have visited

Answer 8

About 80,000 people but only 26 true life saving cases

Answer 9

There do not appear to be any precise figures as I do not think there is anyone keeping count. However, the figure I find mentions 'millions' of visitors each year.

Answer 10

There are about 15,000 people living in Lourdes in France.