On a pilgrimage to Lourdes a pilgrim would go there to see what Bernadette had done and how Mary had influenced her. Lourdes is a town situated in the Southwest of the  , lying in the first Pyrenean foothills. Lourdes has a population of around 1,000 inhabitants but is able to take in some 5,000,000 pilgrims and  every season. Lourdes has the second greatest number of hotels in France after Paris with about 270 establishments.  

One command Mary gave Bernadette was to “come back to the grotto for fifteen days”. So today pilgrims go to the grotto and celebrate Bernadette’s find, they go there to pray for their love ones and the dead.

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Another command what Mary gave to Bernadette is to “build a chapel”. So today pilgrims will visit that chapel and go to regular masses and light candles there so they can remember their dead friends, they use candles as an aid to pray they believe that it helps the prayer stay inside the Church.

Finally Mary told Bernadette to “dig into the ground and wash and drink from the spring” So today pilgrims will go into the bath houses and be fully immersed into the spring what Bernadette made, it has special healing powers and is seen ...

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