Description:

Coming to Lourdes is for most of the visitors a great spiritual adventure. There is the warmth of the community of Lourdes. Here everybody works together to make sure that every pilgrim is happy and well cared for. Lourdes is fully on the go between Easter and All Saints (1st November) with a rich programme of processions, prayer-sessions, masses, confessions, adorations, blessings, rosary-sessions and other devotional activities in several languages. And every evening that highlight of the day: Worlds most exciting torchlight procession, the number of people indicated by the extent of the procession and the lights. A wonderful and stunning experience of faith. This book will guide you through the ceremonies and processions in 2008, and gives the full story about what happened in 1858. As told by those direct involved, including that 14-year old peasant girl Bernadette and people that were sceptical about Lourdes from the beginning.