This coming February marks the 150th anniversary of the apparitions at Lourdes, France, where a desperately poor, illiterate teenage girl had 18 visions of a woman in white who identified herself as “the Immaculate Conception.”
Since then millions from around the world have flocked to the waters of a spring that the mysterious woman revealed to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous. Thousands have claimed miraculous healing there. Six million people each year visit the shrine in the Pyrenees, with 500,000 standing for hours in line to use one of its baths.
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