26
02
2025
2025
Feast of the Assumption, Pilgrimage to Lourdes
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.
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