Editing Lourdes (section)

==Religious sites==
===Sanctuary of Lourdes===
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[[File:Lourdes cathedral cave side 1.jpg|thumb|The majority of visitors are [[pilgrim]]s who fill the public spaces of the Domain.]]
Yearly from March to October the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes is a place of mass pilgrimage from Europe and other parts of the world. The [[Lourdes water|spring water from the grotto]] is believed by some Catholics to possess [[Lourdes Medical Bureau|healing properties]].

An estimated 200 million people have visited the shrine since 1860,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sacredsites.com/europe/france/lourdes.html |title=The Basilica of Lourdes, France |publisher=Sacredsites.com |access-date=5 May 2009 |archive-date=28 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090428194416/http://www.sacredsites.com/europe/france/lourdes.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Roman Catholic Church]] has officially recognized 72 [[Lourdes Medical Bureau|healings]] considered miraculous, as of April 2025.<ref>{{cite web |title=Miraculous Healings |url=https://www.lourdes-france.com/en/miraculous-healings/ |website=Lourdes Sanctuaire |access-date=27 April 2025}}</ref> Cures are examined using Church criteria for authenticity and authentic miracle healing with no physical or psychological basis other than the healing power of the water.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lourdes-france.org/index.php?goto_centre=ru&contexte=en&id=687 |title=Lourdes France, le site officiel des Sanctuaires vous accueille |publisher=Lourdes-france.org |date=21 October 2003 |access-date=5 May 2009 |archive-date=16 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116125100/http://www.lourdes-france.org/index.php?goto_centre=ru&contexte=en&id=687 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Tours from all over the world are organized to visit the Sanctuary. Connected with this pilgrimage is often the consumption of or bathing in the [[Lourdes water]] which wells out of the Grotto.

At the time of the apparitions, the grotto was on common land which was used by the villagers variously for pasturing animals and collecting firewood, and it possessed a reputation for being an unpleasant place.<ref>Ruth Harris, ''Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age'', Penguin Books, 1999, p. 53.</ref>

===Ukrainian Church===
The five-domed St. Mary's [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church|Ukrainian Catholic Church]] in Lourdes was designed by Myroslav Nimciv, while its [[Byzantine art|Byzantine]] interior [[polychrome]] decorations were executed by artist [[Jerzy Nowosielski]] and the [[iconostasis]] by Petro Kholodny. The church was consecrated in 1982. It is about a 10-minute walk from the basilica and the grotto, on a street named in honour of Ukraine, 8 Rue de l'Ukraine, situated on a narrow piece of property close to the railroad station. Visible from the basilica, the height of the building makes up for its narrow breadth.<ref name=ukrweekly>{{cite news |url=http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2006/190643.shtml |title=Travelogue: a flight to the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Lourdes |author=Chrystia Shashkewych-Oryshkevych |work=The Ukrainian Weekly |date=May 7, 2006 |volume=LXXIV |issue=19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710045654/http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2006/190643.shtml |archive-date=2017-07-10}}</ref>