Our Lady Of Lourdes - Monster, Netherlands
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naj16
N 52° 01.274 E 004° 10.631
31U E 580774 N 5764053
Our Lady Of Lourdes grotto Machutuschurch
Waymark Code: WMJPP7
Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 12/14/2013
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The cave with the image of Mary is a replica of the real grotto in Lourdes, where in 1958 a number of times Mary would have appeared to Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879).
Behind the Machutuskerk is the Lourdes Grotto, built in 1877.
Pastor H. Bauer was unable to travel to Lourdes, so he took the initiative for the construction of the Lourdes Grotto in Monster.
The cave is about 4 meters high, 5 meters wide and 5 meters deep.
In the wall under Mary there’s a white marble plate with a piece of stone, taken from the original rock in Lourdes.
Our Lady of Lourdes is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary invoked by Roman Catholics in honor of the Marian apparitions said to have occurred on numerous occasions in 1858 in the vicinity of Lourdes, France. The first of these is the apparition of 11 February 1858, when Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year-old peasant girl, admitted to her mother that a "lady" spoke to her in the cave of Massabielle (a mile from the town) while she was gathering firewood with her sister and a friend. Similar appearances of the "lady" were reported on seventeen further occasions that year.
Associated Religion(s): Christianity - Catholic
Statue Location: Behind the Machutuschurch
Entrance Fee: free
Artist: Not listed
Website: Not listed
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Visit Instructions:
Take a picture of the statue. A waymarker and/or GPSr is not required to be in the image but it doesn't hurt.