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The Shrine of St. Bernadette is a Roman Catholic church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.
From the very start of the parish in 1959, people of various backgrounds developed into a dynamic Christian community of nearly three thousand families. Today, half are of Spanish or Mexican ancestry, many of their families having arrived here over four centuries ago. The other half are people of diverse nationalities including Native American, African, Canadian, European, and Asian.
In 2001, the pastor was presented with a list of major problems which needed immediate attention, including electrical re-wiring and replacing broken water pipes. After much prayer, he assembled a building committee composed of professional architects, contractors, liturgical artists and designers, and members of the parish councils and staff to assist him in the church renovation. The church was literally gutted forcing Masses to be celebrated in the Parish Hall for nearly a year.
On the Feast of St. Bernadette, April 16, 2002, Archbishop Michael Sheehan celebrated a Mass honoring the re-dedication of the church. The Archbishop was visibly inspired by the church’s new appearance. Realizing this, Father Tom wrote to the Archbishop of Santa Fe and asked if he would consider elevating the church to the status of shrine. Though the archbishop’s decision was swift, it was a real surprise to those involved to find exactly how much study and research goes into elevating a parish to a shrine.
On October 7, 2003, Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, once again, Archbishop Sheehan joined the pastor and more than eight hundred parishioners to proclaim that "St. Bernadette Church will henceforth be known as the Shrine of St. Bernadette." During the Mass of Proclamation, Archbishop Sheehan read letters of congratulations from the Bishop of Nevers, France, from the Superior General of the Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction (the congregation to which St. Bernadette belonged) and from Emile Soubirous, the Great Grand-Nephew of St. Bernadette.
One of the reasons the archbishop raised the church to a shrine is the relics and artifacts given by the Sisters of Nevers, France and from the Shrine of Lourdes. To celebrate the elevation of the shrine of "their" saint, the Superior General of the Congregation sent a lock of St. Bernadette’s hair, a sleeping sock worn during the saint’s final years of suffering, [1] a replica of St. Bernadette’s writing book and many quality photographs which are displayed in the Bernadette Chapel at the Shrine. The Rector of the Shrine of Lourdes, France, sent several important gifts which are on display in the Bernadette Chapel including a large piece of the rock from the Grotto of Massabielle where Our Lady appeared to Bernadette eighteen times in 1858. [1]
The Albuquerque Shrine has maintained close links with Lourdes and Nevers, France. The Rector of the Shrine of Lourdes, France traveled 3,000 miles to visit the New Mexico Shrine in March 2005. During his visit, he announced that the Albuquerque Shrine was being appointed an official distributor of Lourdes Water in the Southwestern United States. [2] Lourdes Water is shipped by air to the Albuquerque Shrine so that visitor and pilgrims may take home with them, the authentic water from the spring which Mary asked Bernadette to dig.
In preparation for the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Shrine commissioned a new statue of St. Bernadette by Albuquerque artist Tim Hooton. Two bronze statues were ordered. One for the New Mexico Shrine and the other, donated to the Shrine at Lourdes, France. [3] A group of sixty-six pilgrims from New Mexico joined the artist and his wife at the dedication of the statue at Lourdes in June 2008. The statue was installed at the entrance of the Saint Bernadette Church across from the Grotto and the River du Pau.
A shrine to the Virgin Mary is a shrine marking an apparition or other miracle ascribed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a site on which is centered a historically strong Marian devotion. Such locales are often the destination of pilgrimages.
Lourdes is a market town situated in the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for the Château fort de Lourdes, a fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its center.
Bernadette Soubirous, also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing Marian apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave-grotto at Massabielle. These apparitions occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858, and the woman who appeared to her identified herself as the "Immaculate Conception."
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes is a Catholic Marian shrine and pilgrimage site dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes in the town of Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France. The sanctuary includes several religious buildings and monuments around the grotto of Massabielle, the place where the events of the Lourdes apparitions occurred in 1858, among them three basilicas, the Basilica of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the Rosary Basilica and the Basilica of St. Pius X, respectively known as the upper, lower and underground basilica.
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Our Lady of Lourdes is a title of the Virgin Mary. She is venerated under this title by the Roman Catholic church due to her apparitions that occurred in Lourdes, France. The first apparition of 11 February 1858, of which Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a "Lady" spoke to her in the cave of Massabielle while she was gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Similar apparitions of the "Lady" were reported on 18 occasions that year, until the climax revelation of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception took place. On 18 January 1862, the local Bishop of Tarbes Bertrand-Sévère Laurence endorsed the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes.
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Lourdes water is water which flows from a spring in the Grotto of Massabielle in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, France. The location of the spring was described to Bernadette Soubirous by an apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes on 25 February 1858. Since that time, many millions of pilgrims to Lourdes have followed the instruction of the Blessed Virgin Mary to "drink at the spring and bathe in it". Lourdes water is considered non-liturgical holy water.
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The National Shrine of the Divine Mercy is a church dedicated to the Divine Mercy in Marilao, Bulacan, the Philippines. It was elevated to the status of National Shrine by Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. The first Mass was held at the site on February 2, 1992, the Feast of the Presentation.
St.Theresa Church is a Catholic church under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore (Chennai-Mylai) in Tamil Nadu, India, in Sembiam division of Perambur, Chennai. Approximately 900 families have the membership in this Catholic parish. Many people from various parts of Chennai make pilgrimage to this church for the devotion of Infant Jesus.
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Espace Bernadette Soubirous Nevers is a former convent and the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers in Nevers, France, and is where the body of Saint Bernadette reposes. In 1970, it was converted into a sanctuary run by volunteers and a few sisters who administer to pilgrims and manage the building.
The Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in Heiligenkreuz is a Lourdes grotto in Heiligenkreuz, a municipality in the Vienna Woods in the district of Baden near Vienna, which was created in 2017 by the Heiligenkreuz Abbey as a religious monument in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Like all similar grottoes of Our Lady of Lourdes around the world, it is reminiscent of the world-famous grotto of the apparition of the Virgin Mary in the French pilgrimage town of Lourdes.
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