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Lourdes baths have fully reopened as 30,000 expected for Assumption pilgrimage

August 13, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Our Lady of Lourdes grotto, Lourdes, France. / Credit: Elise Harris/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Aug 13, 2024 / 09:08 am (CNA).
The baths at the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France have fully reopened for the first time in four years for Franc… […]

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3 Marian holy sites in the Muslim nation of Indonesia

August 11, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

The Tuan Ma statue is paraded around Larantuka City during the Semana Santa Holy Week celebrations on Flores Island. / Credit: Alfonso Giostanov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Rome Newsroom, Aug 11, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Across the world… […]

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The image of Our Lady of Lourdes that’s not there but everyone sees it

February 12, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Our Lady of Lourdes shrine in the city of Alta Gracia in Córdoba province, Argentina, displays an image of Our Lady of Lourdes of Altagracia that is not there — but everyone sees it. / Credit: Facebook Virgen de Altagracia

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb… […]

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FACT CHECK: Did an Our Lady of Sorrows statue in Mexico really shed tears?

November 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 16, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA).
Claim: Local Mexican media reported that a 9-year-old boy was the first to see the supposed tears flowing from the eyes of a statue of Our Lady of Sorrows in a ch… […]

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Bishop from area plagued by violence in Mexico prays for peace at Guadalupe shrine

November 10, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Cristobal Ascencio with pilgrims from the diocese of Apatzingán, Mexico, Nov. 8, 2023. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Insigne Nacional Basilica of Guadalupe

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 10, 2023 / 19:00 pm (CNA).
A Mexican bishop from one of the r… […]

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Shrine of Vryssi: The centuries-old Marian holy site you’ve probably never heard of

July 30, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Entrance to the chapel of the Shrine of Vryssi, a Marian pilgrimage on the island of Tinos, Greece. / Photo courtesy of the Congregation of the Servants of the Virgin of Matarà

Rome, Italy, Jul 30, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).
On a small island calle… […]

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Catholic order sells New Hampshire shrine to Shaker museum

July 14, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Statues depicting the apparition of Our Lady of La Salette at the La Salette Shrine in Enfield, New Hampshire. / YouTube/ CatholicNH July 23, 2021

Boston, Mass., Jul 14, 2023 / 14:02 pm (CNA).
The Catholic La Salette Missionaries are selling on… […]

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Pope Francis encourages Marian shrines around the world to pray for Synod on Synodality

May 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis delivers the Regina Caeli address from the window of the Apostolic Palace on May 28, 2023. / Vatican Media

Vatican City, May 28, 2023 / 07:15 am (CNA).
From the Philippines to Portugal, Marian shrines around the world will particip… […]

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Rector reports more pilgrimages to Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine than before pandemic

February 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

The Virgin of Guadalupe in Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City. / Photo credit: David Ramos / ACI Prensa

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 21, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).
Monsignor Salvador Martínez, rector of the Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City, noted that aft… […]

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3 dead, 20 injured after bus traveling to Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine in Mexico overturns

February 6, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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CNA Newsroom, Feb 6, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA).
Three pilgrims died and another 20 — including at least two minors — were injured Sunday in a traffic accident on the Mexico-Puebla highway as they were traveling… […]

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