Book details

  • Genre:travel
  • Sub-genre:Special Interest / Religious
  • Language:English
  • Series Title:Pilgrim's Guides
  • Series Number:3
  • Pages:76
  • eBook ISBN:9780956976857

A Pilgrim's Guide to Lourdes

And the Surrounding Area

By David Houseley and Peter Latham

Overview

The quality colour guidebook that takes you right through the Lourdes Story, and explores the meaning of pilgrimage. This guide covers the Bernadette story and its historical background, the Domaine and all the sacred sites associated with Bernadette in the town and area. What to see in the surrounding area—including sites and cities in neighboring Spain—and all the practical information you will need for your pilgrimage. There is also a devotional section with a Programme for Prayer and Meditation to help ensure that your pilgrimage is full of meaning.
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Description

The quality guidebook that takes you right through the Bernadette story, the Domaine and all the sacred sites associated with Bernadette in the town and area, together with all the practical information you will need for your Pilgrimage. The Bernadette story is told in its historical context. What to see in the surrounding area of the French and Spanish Pyrenees, coastal Aquitaine, the Basque Country, including Loyola, and stops along the Way of St James from St Jean Pied de Port to Pamplona. There is also a Devotional section with a Programme for Prayer and Meditation to help ensure that your Pilgrimage is full of meaning. Illustrated in full colour with maps and plans of the Domaine and town.
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About The Author

David Houseley draws upon many years of experience as an organiser of pilgrimage tours. He has also written books on the Holy Land, Oberammergau and its Passion Play, and the journeys of St Paul in the mediterranean.

Fr Peter Latham was pilgrimage director of the Society of Our Lady of Lourdes. He draws upon many years of administering to the needs of sick pilgrims, their companions and the friends of the Society on their annual pilgrimages from Great Britain to Lourdes. As parish priest of Wembley in 1982 he was privileged to welcome St John Paul II for the great mass at the stadium.

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