Experience the Lourdes pilgrimage

Day Pilgrims

Allowing everyone to discover or rediscover the beauty and simplicity of this place of the apparitions of the
Virgin Mary and her message of peace, comfort and hope which is so relevant today.
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Easter and Holy Week in Lourdes

Celebrating the Apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to Bernadette

Praying at the Grotto

The water gesture

Lighting a candle

The “Bernadette of Lourdes” recital for pilgrimages

Coming to Lourdes

Further information on the Lourdes Tourist Office website
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Accommodation / Meals

Tarbes-Lourdes International Airport (TLP) is located fifteen minutes from the Sanctuary. Lourdes is also accessible from Pau airport (PUF, 45 km away) and Toulouse-Blagnac airport (TLS, 180 km away).

You can reach Lourdes by train, departing from the main cities of France. When you arrive at Lourdes station, you will find city buses that will take you to the Sanctuary.

You can get to Lourdes by car, via the A64 motorway from Toulouse or the A65 from Bordeaux. Several parking areas are available in the city.

Praying to Our Lady of Lourdes

Entrust your prayer to the “Chapelains”

Prayer intentions received today

Candles lit today

Offering of Masses received today

The “Chapelains”

Praying every day with Lourdes

News from the Sanctuary

Find information about the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit

30 May 2023

The Sunday after Pentecost is the Feast of the Holy Trinity. On the Sunday after Pentecost, the Church celebrates the Holy Trinity. As it comes towards the end of the Easter cycle, it is as if the Church has saved … Continued

Wednesday, 31^st May 2023, Feast of the Visitation

25 May 2023

On Wednesday, 31st May, the Church will be celebrating the Feast of the Visitation: Mary went to visit her cousin, Elisabeth, who was pregnant. John the Baptist leapt for joy in his mother’s womb in the presence of the Messiah. … Continued

Pentecost: the Church is born

22 May 2023

Pentecost marks the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, and the birth of the Church. This event occurred fifty days after Easter. Pentecost, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit, closes the Easter season. The birth of … Continued

Come and celebrate the Ascension in Lourdes

16 May 2023

The Feast of the Ascension celebrates the ascent of Jesus to God his Father. It is celebrated on Ascension Thursday, forty days after Easter. It is one of the main Christian holidays, continuing the Easter season and heralding Pentecost, ten … Continued

INTERNATIONAL MILITARY PILGRIMAGE

9 May 2023

A Gathering for Peace From 12th – 14th May 2023, The International Military Pilgrimage (PMI) is organising its 63rd pilgrimage to Lourdes, under the leadership of Mgr. Antoine de Romanet, bishop of the French Armed Forces. Every May, in Lourdes, … Continued

The month of May, a month to honour the Virgin Mary in Lourdes

1 May 2023

During the month of May, Lourdes honours the Virgin Mary by giving people the chance to offer a white flower to Our Lady. Throughout the month of May, Sanctuary volunteers will be laying white flowers before the Crowned Virgin on … Continued