PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES.
BIG EXODUS FROM IRELAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—OoDvriEht "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rcc. September 10, 7.35 p.m.) London, September 10. Three thousand five hundred Irish pilgrims have departed en route for the sacred shrine at Lourdes. Several doctors and twenty-two nurses accompany them, to caro for tho invalids. Lourdes, an aniiient French town in tho Department of Hautes-Pyronces, has in modern times achieved a great vogue as ft place of pilgrimage. A belief prevails that in 1858 tho Virgin Mary appeared in a grotto in tho neighbourhood, and above the spot lias since been erected a magnificent basilica.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1852, 11 September 1913, Page 7
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100PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1852, 11 September 1913, Page 7
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