Our Lady of Lourdes is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary recalling her apparitions in 1858
in the grotto at Lourdes, France to Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl.
The Massabielle Grotto is the very place where the apparitions occurred, and within it is the spring that Bernadette discovered. To the right of the Grotto are the Taps where you can drink Lourdes water.
Those who wish to can also go to the Sanctuary Baths and perform the water gesture.
Known widely as the “Upper Church”, it is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica within the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes. Constructed between 1866 and 1872 and consecrated in 1876, it was the second of the churches to be completed