People today go to Lourdes on pilgrimage for many reasons one of them is to bathe in the water.
A01- Pilgrimage
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Kieron Curran
There are many places of pilgrimage but there are only a few main ones, which includes Lourdes. The story of how Lourdes came about is when a young girl called Bernadette went to the grotto and saw a woman in the grotto and told her to come back for fifteen more days and she told her to do several tasks like wash and dig in the mud until she reached a spring and water started to flow and go and tell the priest to build a chapel but nobody listened to her until she asked the lady in the grotto her name her name was Mary. “I am the immaculate conception” and she went to tell the priest what Mary said and he knew she was telling the truth and from the on people went to the grotto to pray.
People today go to Lourdes on pilgrimage for many reasons one of them is to bathe in the water. The baths are a symbol of our baptism and we are also strengthening our faith, you walk along the bath and kiss the statue of Mary mother of Jesus, then you are fully immersed into the bath until you think you are cleansed, people also drink the water for the same reasons for cleansing and healing and pilgrims also bring back holy water for family and loved ones.