Another grotto is teepee-shaped to honor the first Native American saint, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, known as “Lily of the Mohawks.” “People still sneak in and light candles in them,” Scott ...

The faithful also constructed a grotto behind the church, seeking to evoke the site in Lourdes, France, where a girl claimed to have 18 visits from the Virgin Mary in a cave in 1858.

The faithful also constructed a grotto behind the church, seeking to evoke the site in Lourdes, France, where a girl claimed to have 18 visits from the Virgin Mary in a cave in 1858.

The grotto is a replica of the shrine at Lourdes, France, according to a 1945 souvenir program recounting the history of St. Joseph’s Hospital. The Omaha grotto as it looked in 2005.

MANILA, Philippines — As in many Holy Weeks past, the environmental group EcoWaste Coalition lamented that many of the country’s most popular pilgrimage sites were littered with trash during ...

3. Pilgrimage to Gua Maria Puhsarang Grotto, Kediri, East Java Kediri in East Java hosts a tradition of pilgrimage to the Gua Maria Lourdes Puhsarang during the Easter season. Puhsarang, a village ...

So wherever you go, whether on your knees at Lourdes Grotto or on your feet in forest trails, may your journey be filled with grace, gratitude, and good walking shoes. – Rappler.com ...

Before she went into a convent, aged 22, a chapel had been built at the Lourdes grotto and a statue of the Virgin installed on the rock-side. Before she died of tuberculosis, aged 35, the first ...

You’ve probably heard of the Grotto at Lourdes in the far south of France. Incredibly, San Antonio has a slightly smaller-sized replica of that grotto. Though to look at it, “small” is not an ...

There’s a place in San Antonio that few know about, that was built more than 80 years ago and was dedicated on one of the most frightening days in American history. It’s Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto and ...

The grotto itself isn't even big enough for a Boy Scout troop to camp in, yet so many people are coming through, leaving candles-some so large it takes two people to carry them-that scraping old ...