Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, and remnants of the Catholic enclave ...

The area around St. Anne Lake once held a thriving community of French Canadian Catholics. The faithful also constructed a grotto behind the church, seeking to evoke the site in Lourdes ...

A grotto, built by Pelletier ... to celebrate the anniversary of the Virgin Mary's apparition at Lourdes and in July for St. Anne's feast day. A report in the Highlander from Feb. 18, 1930 ...

After the death of Pope Francis, cardinals of the church will soon gather to pick the next pontiff, with many flocking to social media to share updates with the public.

A friend has offered to accompany me to Lourdes next spring ... you can read Werfel’s book without falling in love with St. Bernadette, or, at the very least, come away an admirer.

I don’t think you can read Werfel’s book without falling in love with St. Bernadette ... at the grotto and led a peaceful life. She was, however, incapable of denying the truth. What child is that ...

Eventually everyone did believe Bernadette and the grotto at Lourdes became a place of worship and the Lourdes holy water was sacred for performing miracles. At the age of 22, Bernadette became a ...

in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child, St. Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception." A thousand times we congratulate you upon your Immaculate Conception. And now, O ever Immaculate ...

In Lourdes, a place of pilgrimage for Christians worldwide, the faithful prayed for the "pope of the poor" after learning of ...

A Protestant who deemed Pope Francis the 'antichrist' celebrated his death with a stunt at the Calvary at Omeath in Co Louth ...

Louth Sinn Fein councillor Fiona Mhic Conchoille has said that the community in Omeath are shocked that images celebrating ...