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More than 30,000 pilgrims are expected in Lourdes for the Aug. 15 feast day.
Speaking on a rainy Sunday in Rome from the window of the Apostolic Palace to the crowd huddled under umbrellas below, the pope said that he wanted to express the closeness “of the entire Church to all those who are sick or frail.”
When she traveled to the small French town of Lourdes 14 years ago, Sister Bernadette Moriau didn’t know that she would be miraculously cured.
How a young French Catholic overcame the limits of the coronavirus lockdown.