盧爾德(Lourdes)

(Occitan: Lorda) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in south-western France.

盧爾德(Lourdes)是歐洲著名的天主教徒的朝聖之地。

據說在1858年有個叫貝娜黛特的女孩在城附近波河旁的山洞中看到聖母瑪利亞顯靈18次。從此小鎮成了天主教世界最著名的朝聖之地。





Lourdes

Lourdes is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees, famous for the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes that are reported to have occurred in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous. At that time, the most prominent feature of the town was the fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its centre.

Following the reports that Our Lady of Lourdes had appeared to Bernadette Soubirous on a total of eighteen occasions, Lourdes has developed into a major place of Roman Catholic pilgrimage and of alleged miraculous healings. The 150th Jubilee of the first apparition took place on 11 February 2008 with an outdoor mass attended by approximately 45,000 pilgrims.