The feast of the Assumption is one of the most important religious celebrations for Catholics around the world, and it takes on a special significance in Lourdes, a Marian pilgrimage site par excellence. Every year on 15 August, thousands of pilgrims converge on this small town in the French Pyrenees to celebrate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, who, according to Catholic tradition, was taken up to heaven body and soul after the end of her earthly life. Lourdes, the site of the Marian apparitions in 1858, becomes the spiritual centre of this festival, where the faith, devotion and communion of believers are intensely manifest. Read more...

The Basilica of St Pius X, located in Lourdes, France, is a unique and impressive Catholic pilgrimage site. Lourdes is world-famous for the Marian apparitions that took place there in 1858, when Bernadette Soubirous, a young girl from the village, claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary on several occasions. Read more...

May this novena to Our Lady of Lourdes strengthen your faith, hope and charity, leading you along the path of holiness and union with God. Amen. Read more...

Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Lourdes,You who appeared in the grotto of MassabielleTo reveal your maternal love and concern for humanity,We turn to you with trust and hope. Read more...

Lourdes, a small town in south-west France, has become one of the most famous and revered places of pilgrimage in the world. Read more...