LOURDES, France — As millions of pilgrims do each year, Pope Benedict XVI drank water Saturday from the Lourdes spring famed for miraculous cures as he visited a grotto at the sanctuary he calls ...

Built in 1903, according to the Rev. Christopher Viscardi, who’s writing a history of the college, Spring Hill’s grotto symbolizes the miracle at Lourdes, France. In 1858, as the story goes ...

River flooding forced the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France ... which contain water from a spring Bernadette discovered during Mary's ...

Reporting from Lourdes, France — Dazed by a series of light-filled spiritual apparitions in a remote southwestern French grotto ... she would find a healing spring under the dirt, and that ...

and forearms with holy water from the miraculous spring. The Lourdes Grotto in France. Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA The return of the possibility of full immersion in the sacred water has been ...

"Thanks to the mobilisation of the teams of the Notre-Dame de Lourdes Sanctuary, the grotto was able to be cleaned ... according to Météo-France. "The flood peaks were reached on the rivers ...

LOURDES, France – On February ... At the grotto in Lourdes, Mary was said to have instructed Bernadette to dig up the soil and drink water from the spring. To this day, millions of Catholics ...

21 October 2012 • 5:02pm Mud is swept from the Virgin's grotto of the Catholic Sanctuary, partially covered by mud and water after heavy rains in Lourdes, France Credit: Photo: EPA The waters ...

The Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery at 911 E. North Ave. was recently rededicated by clergy at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church - but it may have been the century ...