Pilgrimage & Travel

Places Lourdes and its attendant spiritual movement firmly at the centre of French history and shows its significance in the country's development.

2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous. In this special anniversary book, Jacques Perrier, the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, looks to the future and sets out what he sees as the 12 'missions'...