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Lourdes, Notre-Dame de
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09389b.htmThe pilgrimage of Lourdes is founded on the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin to a poor, fourteen-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubiroux. The first apparition occurred 11 February, 1858.
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