The Smith family usually attends Christmas Day Mass at the Oblate Missions, home to Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto and the Virgen de Guadalupe Tepeyac de San Antonio, to enjoy both nature and God. The ...

On Sunday morning, after the hymns, greetings and breaking of bread, Father Leo Perez asked all fathers, grandfathers, spiritual fathers and padrinos worshiping at Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto to stand ...

As a young boy in Acapulco, Mexico, Victor Manuel Patricio Silva received an early lesson in faith from his mother, Leonor. A member of the Legion of Mary, she would bring Silva to Mass every week ...

Built in 1923, Our Lady of Lourdes Church was a pillar in the neighborhood until closing in Hurricane Katrina, but now, it’s ...

A Roman Catholic landmark in Emmitsburg that attracts pilgrims from around the world is getting a $2.7 million visitor center. Mount St. Mary’s University said Wednesday the 5,000-square-foot building ...

The University of Notre Dame released a statement on July 26 saying that the campus's Grotto of our Lady of Lourdes caught fire on Monday evening. The university's fire department quickly extinguished ...

PARK HILLS, Kentucky -- A planned grotto is at the center of a rift between a new Catholic church in Park Hills and residents who want to preserve their quiet neighborhood. Priest and members at Our ...

River flooding forced the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France. The shrine complex remained open to visitors. A morning Mass, however, was ...

EMMITSBURG, Md. -- She gazes from the treetops upon the valley they named for her, upon the farms, the town and the college and the traffic whistling past on U.S. Route 15. For the tourists driving on ...

In Lourdes, France, in 1844 a baby girl named Bernadette Soubirous was born. Bernadette’s family was very poor, and Bernadette was responsible for looking after and caring for her brothers and sisters ...

The first of 18 apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes to St. Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, happened on this day in history, Feb. 11, 1858. Soubirous, then a sickly 14-year-old peasant girl ...