Lourdes as a Shrine and miraculous place Today, around the grotto, a neo-Byzantine, three-level basilica was built. Underground is another basilica, which holds 7,000 people and has a ramp for ...

Our Lady of Lourdes, as you looked down with love and mercy upon Bernadette as she prayed her rosary in the grotto, look down now, we beseech you, with love and mercy upon us.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, was elected the 267th Pope by the Vatican conclave on May 8, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. He has taken the name Pope Leo XIV.

Located on Windgap Road in this small fishing village a 15-minute drive from the City of St. John’s, it was inspired by the grotto in Lourdes, France, where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St.