Advertisement The grotto is the site where 14-year-old St. Bernadette Soubirous reported 18 visions of Mary in 1858. Mary called for prayer and penance, and requested a chapel be built at the site.

What is significant about the church architecturally is the replica of the grotto where the Heavenly Mother appeared to St. Bernadette in Lourdes, France in 1858.

The private dedication Mass and blessing ceremony on Saturday marks near-completion of a visitor center for the National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes. It will open to the public June 1.

The Lourdes grotto, in the foothills of the Pyrenees in southwest France, is where an illiterate peasant girl, St. Bernadette, said she had visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858.

The first of 18 apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to 14-year-old St. Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, happened on this day in history, Feb. 11, 1858.

The Grotto will be open for two more Sundays before closing the tours for the year with the last day being Oct. 30. For those wishing to set up a private tour, contact St. Boniface Catholic Parish ...

Mount St. Mary's University said Wednesday the 5,000-square-foot building will welcome hundreds of thousands of people a year to the National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes.

Bring the grace of Lourdes to people across the country.” The tour of Bernadette’s relics began on April 7 at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Miami, which also has a grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.

San Antonio boasts a nearly exact replica of France’s Lourdes Grotto. A shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe is also present on the grounds of the Missionary Association of Mary Immaculate.

Not far from St. Joseph Chapel at Spring Hill College is the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, where a statue of the Virgin Mary looks out from a small cave. "As an incoming freshman," says Gaillard ...

Workers have nearly finished a new stone grotto at St. Therese's Retreat Center on the East Side. Donors are paying for the $50,000 project, which replaces a grotto that was razed because of ...