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Pope Leo XIV was just another pilgrim at the Grotto of Lourdes
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Marian shrine in Hautes-Pyrénées, France
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes is a Catholic Marian shrine and pilgrimage site dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes in the town of Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France. The sanctuary includes several religious buildings and monuments around the grotto of Massabielle, the place where the events of the Lourdes apparitions occurred in 1858, among them are three basilicas, the Basilica of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the Rosary Basilica and the Basilica of St. Pius X, respectively known as the upper, lower and underground basilica.
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Pope Leo became a pilgrim at the Grotto of the Apparitions in Lourdes and prayed with thousands of the faithful.
Hours before a private meeting with seven abuse survivors, the pope urged France’s bishops to “acknowledge failings” and told a prairie full of pilgrims that the Church’s conversion starts at home.
"We pray to you, our Mother, for France, for you are her patroness and have protected her for so many centuries," Pope Leo said in a prayer to Mary at Lourdes.