Each year, more than 3 million pilgrims visit the small town. Many make the journey to Lourdes because they've heard the stories of the miraculous medical recoveries that have taken place there.

The faithful come to Lourdes, hoping for miracles, healing and transformation. One skeptical pilgrim follows the path and finds a . . . SLICE OF HEAVEN - Los Angeles Times ...

This week, the Vatican officially approved religious pilgrimages to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. While it didn't declare that the ...

As many as 6 million people visit Lourdes each year to pray and to touch, bathe in and drink from the spring water that flows under the grotto where the apparitions of the Virgin first took place.

The bishop said: "I'm very excited that the relics of St Bernadette of Lourdes, to whom Our Lady appeared 18 times, will be coming to our diocese. "What a wonderful opportunity this visit ...