Article: Good Lourdes; travel KEVIN PILLEY IN SEACH OF MIRACLES IN THE PYRENEES.(Features)

Byline: KEVIN PILLEY

THE giant candles kept on arriving. Wheelchairs stacked up along the banks of the Gave river. Nuns and nurses kissed the ground. The queues for the baths lengthened.

A hunched-up old lady in a black shawl whispered to the wall, petitioning the rockface. "In your heart I place all my anguish and it is there that I gain strength and courage."

Pushed towards the famous Massabielle grotto, a frail hollow-cheeked man in a bath-chair, a rug over his knees and reading from a small book, muttered: "Mary, you showed yourself to Bernadette in the crevice of the rock in the cold and grey of winter. You are the Immaculate Conception. Come to aid the ...

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