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What do people feel as a result of going on a pilgrimage to Lourdes?
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∙ 12y ago
Lourdes is the place where, in 1858, a young girl, Bernadette Soubirous, supposedly saw apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Interestingly, when pious witnesses followed Bernadette when she returned to see Mary, they saw nothing but Bernadette said that she did see the vision once again. The Catholic Church soon saw the commercial possibilities of these apparitions and aggressively marketed Lourdes as a place of pilgrimage. At first, there was no suggestion that miracle cures could be expected at Lourdes, but people of medieval and early modern times expected that wherever Mary's apparition was seen, one could expect the possibility of cures.
. Lourdes now receives over 80,000 pilgrims a year, of whom approximately 7000 people in more than a century claimed to have experienced cures and have sought to have those cures confirmed as miracles. In a way the cures these people experienced were real. John Dominic Crossan, author of The Birth of Christianity, visited Lourdes in 1960, then the pagan healing shrines of the god Asklepios at Epidaurus in Greece and at Pergamum in Turkey in 1965. He was struck by the general similarity between the ailments involved in stories of healing at those shrines and at Lourdes, as well as at Fatima. Real people with real ailments - including paralysis, blindness, deafness, dumbness, growths and wounds - were clearly healed at the pagan shrine of Epidaurus. The cures occasionally experienced at Lourdes are much the same as at Epidaurus, so clearly the same cause is at work. Nevertheless, Catholics and perhaps other Christians go on pilgrimage to Lourdes either to experience this holy site for its own sake, or in the hope of a cure from the water.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 14y agoSome of them feel as if it is heaven. the helpers think that they are so fortunate, seeing the ill and try to make sure that the pilgrims have a good stay.
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∙ 11y agoPilgrims pray and visit the miraculous spring as well as attend Mass while at Lourdes.
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∙ 12y agoI went to Lourdes and i felt that i had a new life and it like having a fresh start at life with the help of God.
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How long has Lourdes been a place of pilgrimage?
Pilgrims began going to Lourdes in 1858.
Why is a trip to Lourdes different to a holiday?
Going to Lourdes is a pilgrimage, a visit to a holy place. So while on a pilgrimage to Lourdes or any holy place, you would be doing things like say prayers and going to religious services. In Lourdes you would also visit places associated with St. Bernadette.
Who mainly visits Lourdes?
Mainly it is Catholics going there on pilgrimage. Anyone can visit, so you will have non-Catholics going to see it, and general tourists. As well as the religious aspects, Lourdes is a big town, so people will go for other practical reasons too, like any town. There is also a rugby team there, as rugby is popular in the south of France, so some people would go to see matches there. But the vast majority of people that go to Lourdes are going there because it is a place of pilgrimage.
Who goes Lourdes?
Ill people go to Lourdes or if people have disabilities e.g. if someone was blind they would go to Lourdes to get their eyesyght back. Not everyone can get cured by going to Lourdes. Mainly the Roman Catholics but Methodists, Anglicans, Baptists and Presbyterians do too. Anybody is allowed to go but it is a place of pilgrimage so mostly religious people visit there
What do Roman Catholics do when they go on a pilgrimage?
Roman Catholic AnswerThat rather depends on what pilgrimage you're going on. If you're going as a pilgrim to Rome, then one would assume that you want to see the Holy Father, and attend one of his audiences. If you are going to Lourdes, you probably want to bath in the waters. If you are going to Knock, you will want to climb the mountain on your knees, etc.
What do they get from the experience of going on a pilgrimage?
People get satisfaction and peace of mind
Have any miracles happened as a result of going to rome on pilgrimage?
It may have or not.It always depend on your faith in God.
How has Lourdes been affected by commercialisation?
As with any place that attracts millions of visitors, there is a lot of commercialism in Lourdes. People do want to buy souvenirs from Lourdes and other practical items and local people need to make a living, so the commercialism serves a function. The most important features of Lourdes is within the area known as the Domain, where the churches and the grotto are and it is free of commercialism. The commercialism does not stop people going to Lourdes. Some people may not like it, but even for them, it does not stop them doing what they have come to Lourdes to do as part of their pilgrimages.
How do you go to Lourdes from Paris?
I am going to Lourdes > je vais à Lourdes - to go is 'aller' in French (conjugated verb in link)
How many times does the image of the parallelogram coincide with its pilgrimage during the rotation?
There is no record of a parallelogram going on a pilgrimage. Ever!
When did people start going to Lourdes?
People can go at any time of year, but there are not so many visitors during the winter months. Special days, like the 11th of February, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, are very busy. The summer months are very busy.
Would you change by going to Lourdes?
That would be mostly up to the individual, and their frame of mind. A Catholic embarking on a pilgrimage to Lourdes would surely discover some personally unrealized truth, and possibly a miraculous cure for what ails them; a skeptic dragged there as an au pair who is nonetheless open-minded enough might also be changed--but there are also those who refuse to change, no matter what.
