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ROSARIO, Argentina – As Europe slowly but steadily re-opens after coronavirus closures, Catholics across the continent are being allowed back to Mass. However, organized groups of pilgrims in large numbers are still a long way off, leading the famed Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes to organize an online pilgrimage and crowdfunding drive to try to make up a $9 million deficit.
“Lourdes needs the world, and the world needs Lourdes,” said Monsignor Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, rector of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France.
“Lourdes United” will take place July 16, and it will include a 15-hour live session, in different languages, with Masses, processions, rosaries and other prayers. The date is significant: It’s the anniversary of the last Marian apparition recorded in Lourdes.
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Facing $9 million deficit, Lourdes launches online pilgrimage
“Lourdes needs the world, and the world needs Lourdes,” said Monsignor Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, rector of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France.
“Lourdes United” will take place July 16, and it will include a 15-hour live session, in different languages, with Masses, processions, rosaries and other prayers. The date is significant: It’s the anniversary of the last Marian apparition recorded in Lourdes.
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Facing $9 million deficit, Lourdes launches online pilgrimage
