Lourdes

Lourdes is widely considered the third most important site for Catholic pilgrimage, behind the Holy Land and Rome.

Every year, this Marian shrine at the foot of the Pyrenees draws millions of pilgrims to the Grotto of Massabielle where, in 1858, the Virgin Mary appeared to a young local girl by the name of Marie-Bernarde Soubirous.

She was able to identify the apparitions to her parish Priest as the Immaculate Conception, despite having very limited knowledge of the Catholic doctrine at the time. This along with the multiple visions in the grotto paved the way to a canonical investigation validating the apparitions as worthy of belief.

Today the local girl is known as St. Bernadette following her canonisation in 1933 by Pope Pius XI. Over 5 million pilgrims travel to Lourdes each year to see the home of St. Bernadette’s miracles, and the place where Our Lady of Lourdes appeared eighteen times.

Sanctuary Of Our Lady Of Knock

Monastic City in Glendalough

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Ireland’s International Eucharistic and Marian Shrine. The sanctuary was built after the small village of Knock experienced an Apparition of Our Lady, St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist on a rainy evening in 1879. We can have a walking tour hosted by a sanctuary guide, including a visit to the museum. Mass in the Chapel of Apparition and Stations of the Cross are always popular. There is also an excellent on-site café for lunch. “Knock has always been a place of welcome, sanctuary and sacredness, a place for people to join together in prayer and worship.” – Fr. Richard Gibbons, Rector.
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In the 6th century AD, St. Kevin crossed the mountains from Hollywood to Glendalough, glen of the two lakes, where he founded a flourishing monastery that became one of the most important monastic sites in Ireland. We will have a guided tour here, viewing the ruins of the ‘city’ and learning about the life of St. Kevin. Nearby in Laragh is St. Kevin's Church where groups may have Mass. The foundation stone was laid on St. Kevin’s Feast Day in 1846 and you may observe his statue above the porch as you enter.
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