Lourdes
Like many hajj traditions in a pandemic year, Zamzam water gets a reboot
By Joseph Hammond — July 21, 2021
(RNS) — In an effort to keep COVID-19 transmission to a minimum, Saudi authorities have deployed 20 robots to serve bottles of Islam's holiest water to often bemused pilgrims.
Pope Francis to lead global prayer ceremony on eve of Pentecost
By Claire Giangravé — May 29, 2020
(RNS) — Faithful from five continents will join in prayers for the intercession of Mary for the end of the pandemic, emphasizing the global reach of the church.
Bishop declares French Catholic nun’s cure a Lourdes miracle
By Associated Press — February 11, 2018
(AP) — It was the 70th miraculous recovery attributed to divine intervention in Lourdes.
The ‘Splainer: Lourdes and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
By Josephine McKenna — August 12, 2016
(RNS) Security is being beefed up as thousands of pilgrims flock to a Marian shrine in southwest France. Why Lourdes and what is the Assumption?
The Occasional Pilgrim: ‘Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler’
By Kimberly Winston — December 16, 2014
(RNS) In "Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler," airing on PBS beginning Tuesday (Dec. 16), American pilgrims travel to some of the most sacred sites in the world: Jerusalem, Mecca, the Ganges River, the Shikoku Trail, Osun-Osogbo and Lourdes.
‘Sacred Journeys’ weds new pilgrims to old paths
By Kimberly Winston — December 12, 2014
(RNS) Popular pilgrimage features protagonists who go on long, transformational journeys of both feet and faith. It is that transformational nature that separates pilgrimage from travel -- pilgrimage is a vocation, not a vacation.
Could an Alabama shrine become the next Catholic pilgrimage site?
By Greg Garrison — July 17, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) Could a Virgin Mary statue under a pine tree in the middle of a cow pasture in rural Alabama one day become an officially recognized international pilgrimage site of the Roman Catholic Church? By Greg Garrison.
Visionary from Medjugorje says Virgin Mary is aware of economic crisis
By Greg Garrison — July 3, 2012
STERRETT, Ala. (RNS) Marija Lunetti, one of six young peasants who claimed that the Virgin Mary began appearing to them in 1981 in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, says the mother of Jesus is aware of the economic crisis in Europe. By Greg Garrison. About 650.
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