From this grotto of Massabielle, the Blessed Virgin speaks to us, too, the Christians of the third millennium. Let us listen to her!” “Listen to her,” he continued, “young people who seek ...

In 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes in southern France, Our Lady appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl. She revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception ...

They claim, “It is believed that he named them ‘Rocher’ after the craggy rock grotto, called the Rocher de Massabielle, that marks the place where the Blessed Mother appeared to St ...

Nuns pray in front of the Massabielle grotto in Lourdes, in April 2005. The site is Christianity's most visited place of pilgrimage after Rome. Picture: AFP As Soubirous’ vision came 12 years ...

For 150 years, pilgrims have never ceased to come to the grotto of Massabielle to hear the message of conversion and hope which is addressed to them. And we have done the same; here we are this ...

He slapped his name on it and added Rocher—the French word for rock—as a reference to a Catholic shrine called Rocher de Massabielle, a grotto in France where the Virgin Mary is said to have ...