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Louis Gaston Adrien de Ségur (April 15, 1820 – June 9, 1881) was a French bishop and charitable pioneer. [ 1 ] In 1881 he organized the first formal Eucharistic Congress in Lille France which was approved by Pope Leo XIII and was attended by 40,000 people.
The Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary (French: Notre Dame du Rosaire de Lourdes) is a Catholic church and minor basilica within the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Its main theme is a celebration and depiction of the Rosary.
The Wonders of Lourdes, full text of book by Louis Gaston de Ségur and Anna Theresa Sadlier (published 1874) Our Lady of Lourdes, full text of book by Henri Lasserre (published 1906) Pilgrimage of His Holiness John Paul II to Lourdes in 2004, at the Holy See website (archived October 2014) "The Apparitions of 1858", Sanctuaires Notre-Dame de ...
The sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes began with the Marian apparitions to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 in the town of Lourdes.On 11 February 1858, a 14-year-old peasant girl, called Bernadette Soubirous, said she saw a "lady" while playing near the grotto of Massabielle (from masse vieille: "old mass") with her sister and a friend, on the left bank of the Gave de Pau river. [1]
Le pèlerinage de Lourdes is the only encyclical of Pope Pius XII issued in French.It includes warnings against materialism on the centenary of the apparitions at Lourdes.It was given at Rome, from St. Peter's Basilica, on the feast of the Visitation of the Most Holy Virgin, July 2, 1957, the nineteenth year of his pontificate.
The pilgrims then crossed by ferry to Boulogne, before taking another train, arriving in Lourdes at 6pm on 5 September. The return journey followed the same pattern, leaving Lourdes at 10:30am on 11 September. On that first pilgrimage a pilgrim travelling first class would have paid the princely sum of £25.
Notre Dame de Lourdes (or Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes) is French for "Our Lady of Lourdes", which refers to the Marian apparition that is reported to have appeared before various individuals in separate occasions around Lourdes, France.
It is also known as the Lourdes Hymn, a term which also refers to the hymn tune itself. It is often sung in honour of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. [1] The earliest version of the hymn was written in 1873 by French priest and seminary director Jean Gaignet, for pilgrims to the site of the apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes.