What is it like at Lourdes?

Answer 1

people would go to Lourdes because there are loads of miracle stuffs happened there such as Mary appeared to Bernadette and people believe that if you drink water in there you will get healed.

Answer 2

Lourdes is a place famous for Catholics. Pilgrims flock to the grotto where a young shepherdess, Bernadette, saw apparitions of Our Lady. There are several examples of crippled pilgrims having been soaked in the water of the little stream from the grotto, to find themselves miraculously cured.

Answer 3

The high Pyrenees are still a place of wild beauty, and Lourdes was already a significant tourist destination before 1858, so visitors of all faiths can enjoy sight-seeing.
Lourdes is also renowned for its miracle cures. Catholics can participate in a religious experience and, if they wish, bathe in the spring waters in the hope of a cure and purchase spring water and other curios. 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, a number so small as to suggest that these cases were likely to have been cured or gone into remission anyway.

Answer 4

People visit Lourdes every year either to try and recover from an illness of some sort e.g. blindness, or to just visit the place due to it's holy value/ place of worship.

Answer 5

they are important because the rituals help religious people in different ways lik the healing of the sick and it makes the pilgrimage special

Answer 6

The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette there in the 19th century.