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...grotto on the edge of Lourdes, a 14-year-old peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous is said to have seen visions of the Blessed Mother on 18 different occasions. In one of those apparitions, Bernadette was told to dig in the grotto soil and "drink the water." The underground spring she uncovered is believed to have remarkable curative powers. After bathing in the waters or simply praying at the shrine, thousands of sick and handicapped people, an average of two every week, have claimed instant cures for conditions ranging from blindness to cancer. Church authorities have recognized only...
...tourist businesses that line its narrow streets. Lourdes alarm clocks, fondue sets and cigarette lighters compete for shelf space with bottles of "Eau de Toilette a la Bernadette" (three scents), tin napkin holders depicting Bernadette and the Virgin, and plastic packets of "Lourdes Mints" guaranteed to be made from grotto water...
...defense of Lourdes' tourist traps, noting that while many criticize the souvenir shops, no one forgets to patronize them. In an even more direct gesture, the Pope visited the mayor of Lourdes and drove through the commercial district before proceeding to the 47-acre sanctuary surrounding the grotto (where vendors are prohibited). Said he: "Is not the city of Lourdes the place par excellence where the sick are really at home, with the same rights as the healthy, with services and facilities fully adapted to them?" Indeed, for all its tacky flash, Lourdes treats with respect the sick...
John Paul led a candlelight procession to the grotto on Sunday, which was followed by an open-air Mass in an adjacent meadow on Monday, the feast of the Assumption, the religious holiday marking Mary's entry into heaven. The Pope noted that his visit coincided with the 2,000th anniversary of her birth.-* The Mass was attended by 150,000 worshipers. That was far short of the expected 300,000, many of whom undoubtedly stayed away because of a terrorist act two days before John Paul's arrival. An anticlerical group calling itself Arrete Cures (Stop Priests...
...nasty side, as real acts of exorcism must. The fantasies her art expels into the chaste gallery space have as much to do with incest and cannibalism as with the more usual aesthetic satisfactions of MOMA. The most vivid of them, and the crudest, is a sort of grotto full of pendulous brown stalactites, lumpy and breastlike...