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Lourdes
Doors in 1858 was only one small village of some hundreds of inhabitants.
In 2005, its population reaches 18 000 inhabitants but it receives in the year several thousands, to see million pilgrims...
Indeed, February 11, 1858, the small Bernadette Soubirous going to the cave of Massabielle to collect wood there, it sees "to appear", in an anfractuosity of the rock, a "injury" who, later, will say to him to be called "the Immaculate Conception". To 18 recoveries, the virgin will show herself with the small Lourdian.
According to its wish, on the same spot, (known as "Sanctuaries") were built vaults and basilicas, around the Cave of its miraculous source, the fountains and swimming pools where thousands are accomodated of patients. Because, with Lourdes, 64 "miracles" (or unexplainable cures) were recognized by the medical and religious authorities.
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