Opening prayer – to be prayed before each day’s special prayer Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of ...

By appearing in the Grotto of Lourdes, you were pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary, whence you dispense your favors; and already many sufferers have obtained the cure of their infirmities ...

Visitors to the Grotto said they are sad to lose the Pope, but it is a special time of year in the faith to die. Visitor George Krantz said he will remember Pope Francis as a holy man of prayer ...