A rock called Massabielle towers over the Gave de Pau River near Lourdes, France. At 27 meters tall, it has a 4-meter grotto at its base and a niche in the rock above it to the right. On Feb. 11, 1858 ...

The Pope will then visit the Massabielle Grotto where the Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous on February 16, 1858. He will then drink the water from the grotto's spring, offer the Virgin ...

Our Lady of Lourdes Feast celebrated February 11 In 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes in southern France, Our Lady appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl.

The Massabielle Grotto where the Lady appeared to Bernadette eighteen times, the last time of which was on July 16, 1858, is the heart and major attraction of Lourdes. The name Massabielle derives ...

Here at this Grotto of Massabielle, I wish first of all to greet the sick who come in ever greater numbers to this Shrine, those who have accompanied them, their caregivers and their families.

Unbelievers might well view the entire endeavor at the Massabielle Grotto—where the ailing anoint themselves with the moisture they wipe from the black stone walls—as an exercise in futility.

In his own book, Lourdes Diary: Seven Days at the Grotto of Massabieille,, Loyola Press, 2006, James Martin, SJ, says he was "captivated" by Harris's book.

At the grotto of Massabielle, we lined up to touch the cold walls and taste a drop of water from a spring believed to be miraculous. Flowers, letters, jewelry and other ex-voto (offerings) items are ...

The idea to build a replica of the Massabielle Grotto, which was prompted by St Bernadette's accounts of visions of the Virgin Mary, was driven by Greenock-born priest Thomas Nimmo Taylor.

These are situated to the left of the Grotto of Massabielle. The baths Following on the first miracles, which took place in 1858 and 1862, temporary baths were constructed.

From this grotto of Massabielle, the Blessed Virgin speaks to us, too, the Christians of the third millennium. Let us listen to her!” ...

Around 7 a.m. of March 3, 1858, Bernadette went with her mother, Louise, to the Massabielle Grotto. Some 4,000 people were waiting there for her. The Vision did not appear and the crowd was ...