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The total popula tion of Lourdes was about 4,200 — with half its labor force working slate and marble quar ries which were fast being ex hausted of. superior stone. February 11 of that year, the Blessed Virgin appeared for the first time to the poor, sickly 14-year-old Bernadette Soubi- rous. Early in the course of the ensuing apparitions — there were 18 in all, with the final one that July 16 — Our Lady asked that the people come to the site in procession. The site was a debris-strewn cave on the banks of the mountain stream, the Gave de Pau. Thousands of persons heeded her call that spring and in the months following — most of them from- the surrounding re gion. In 1862, when Bishop Ber- SALES SHOE SHOP SERVICE • QUALITY SATISFACTION CE. 3-9223 3988 Peachtree Rd„ N. E, Atlanta trand-Severe Laurence of Tar- bes declared Bernadette’s vi sions worthy of belief, Lourdes began attracting pilgrims from afar. But even for pilgrims from Paris, the trip was a major un dertaking. The nearest railroad station was in Tarbes, a rough dozen miles away even by horse and carriage. Today things are different. The hardships of travel, once a major factor in penitential as pect of the pilgrimage to Lourdes, are no more. This centennial year pilgrims to Lourdes can vouch for it. Flying from Washington to New York on the first leg of the trip was no new experience. But New York to Paris was. Traveling high above the clouds on a TWA “Jetstream flight,” it took less than 12 hours — smooth flying all the way. The trip from Paris to Lourdes is almost as simple. The runways at Ossun airport, six miles from the shrine city, have just been enlarged, and there are frequent flights from Paris, Brussels, Dublin, and oth er major cities. The French railway system has had three trains a day from Paris to Lourdes for years —• the railroad having been extend ed to Lourdes in the spring of 1866 — and this year just under 1,000 special trains have been scheduled to take the great throng of pilgrims. The Paris- Lourdes run takes about 10 hours. Thus destination Lourdes is reached. Just what does the pil grim see at Lourdes 100 years A. J. BOHN COMPANY Brick, Building Tile, Spectra Glaze Concrete Blocks CEdar 7-6461, Atlanta, Ga., 3229 Cains Hill Place, N. W. ESTABLISHED 1S9S Complete Bunking and Trust Facilities Tme Liberty National Bane & Tsust Co. SAVA MKAM, SBOIfill MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION ddidjfX Oti »Or/ ” 24-Hr. Service - Passengers Insured /nA 1 W SAOIO J N Blue Top & Veterans Cab Company | * \a"- * A f TWO PHONES: 47-3146 — 47-3191 A II I 'A**' 1 Iil |: "*grf j Brookhaven Chamblee ■ ^Wa!!!!"" 1 "" yfwnr L-A W/*., . *> *“,- i fapL =1 Doraville John G. 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But the whole town is a virtual museum ■—■ albeit a bustling, vibrant one —of Our Lady, of Bernadette and her family, and of all who played a part in the drama sur rounding the humble teen-ager who went on to achieve sancti ty in the convent in Nevers, in central France. The grotto of Massabielle, of course, is the focal point of all Lourdes. A natural cave hol lowed out of the massive old rock which is Massabielle by the flood waters of the Gave over the course of the ages, the grot to proper meausres about 40 feet across, 12 to 15 feet high, and 26 feet in depth. The ceiling is now blackened by a century of smoke from the candles placed there by pilgrims, and the rock face of the right side, above which “the lady” appeared, has been worn smooth by those who have- kissed it. The Gave has been pushed back perhaps 150 feet to enable crowds to gather in front of the cave. The grotto today is more like it was a century ago than it has been at any time since 1862, when its floor was cemented and its entrance enclosed by an iron grille. In preparation for the centenary the fence has been taken down, and the ornate white altar has given way to a simple slab of stone on a single pedestal. A white marble statue of Our Lady stands in a hollow in the rock, slightly above and to the left of the grotto itself. The work of a Lyons sculptor who tried to follow Bernadette’s de scription of Mary as she ap peared on the feast of the An nunciation, March 25, 1858, it was dedicated six years after the apparitions. When Berna dette saw the statue, she re marked: 1 ‘Oh, it’s very beauti ful, but it isn’t Her.” During the 10th apparition, on February 27, the Blessed Virgin had said to Bernadette: “Go and Serving Northeast Atlanta SUNRISE DAIRY Always Purity and Quality. Fresh Milk, Cream, Chocolate Milk and Orange Juice 3614 Johnson Road, N. E. ME. 4-3256, Atlanta, Ga. 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Bishop Laurence’s favor able judgment on Bernadette’s story was issued in January, 1862, and a few months later, workmen began leveling the top of the rock of Massabielle for the “chapel.” The first part of the “chapel” —actually a crypt over which a larger church was to be built —was completed in 1866. The Bishop consecrated its five al tars on May 19, and Berna dette, who was to leave Lourdes to enter the convent two months later, was part of the congre gation. Ten years later, the chapel it self — the gothic basilica of the Immaculate Conception — was consecrated by the Cardinal- Archbishop of Paris. In 1883, when the basilica had proved too small for the throngs com ing to Lourdes, another church was begun, in front of the bas ilica and almost at the level of the grotto itself. Blessed in 1889, the Byzantine-style dome of this Church of the Rosary comes just up to the level of the, entrance of the basilica. At the same time were built the great ramps which rise armlike to the basilica of the Immacu late Conception, and in those arches are a number of outdoor altars — including one dedicat ed to St. Bernadette herself. Fronting the three tiers of churches is the vast tree-lined esplanade, where the sick and crippled gather daily for the procession and blessing of the Blessed Sacrament. Today the churches dominate the landscape of Massabielle, with the arches supporting the right ramp forming the major approach to the grotto. About 100 yeards to the right of the grotto is the new building con taining the small, individual bathing pools, where able-bod ied as well as sick immerse themselves in the healing wat ers. The second biggest church in the world is here too. But the newly consecrated Basilica of St. Pius X is underground — so as not to interfere with the harmony of the older structures. On the hillside above the old basilica is the famous Way of the Cross, where pilgrims can often be seen climbing its tor- Mou 5f 103 E. Court House Square DECATUR PHONE DR. 2-1708 ALL YOUR MUSIC NEEDS • Records • Hi-Fi Players IfdutlandJ tuous path barefooted. On the other side of this hill, about a half-mile from the grot to, is the free City of Help which can provide free food and lodging for 600 poor pil grims a day. Operated by the national Catholic Charities or ganization of France, its staff is composed of volunteer laymen and a group of Father de Fou- cauld’s Little Sisters of Jesus. The growing fame of its mod ern design is fast making it almost a separate pilgrimage point for architects and artists from all over the world. Close by the new basilica is the Museum of Our Lady, where one can trace the religious his tory of Lourdes and see evi dence of the many cures that have taken place at the shrine. Also on the left bank of the Gave, is the Hospital of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, where most of the very sick pil grims are cared for by the Sis ters and volunteer doctors . and aides. Crossing to the right bank of the Gave, one finds Lourdes. Here is the impregnable fortress high above the town, the castle which had made Lourdes the most important place in Bigorre in the ninth century, and which is now a museum. Less than a hundred yards, as the crow flies, from the fort ress is the Rue des Petits Fosses and the hovel of an old dun geon where St. Bernadette and her family lived at the time of the apparitions. This “ca- ehot” has been restored to its original barren state. Slightly farther away, but to the north of the fortress, is the Boly mill, where the Soubirous family had lived in better days and where Bernadette was born in 1844. In this vicinity too is the La- cade Mill, which was given "Ber nadette’s father by Bishop Lau rence in the 1860’s. While Ber nadette visited this “paternal home” often, she never lived there. The hospice and school of the Sisters of Nevers, which Ber nadette attended as a day pupil from October, 1858, to July, 1860 — and as a boarder from then until she left to enter the convent six years later — is several blocks to the northwest, near the main road to Tarbes. It was here that Bernadette learn ed to read and write, and here that she found her vocation. The parish church of Lourdes is in the center of the town. Built in the latter part of the last century, its baptismal font is the ancient one at which the saint was christened. In the crypt beneath the high altar is tomb of Bernadette’s pastor, Abbe Peyramale. About two miles north of Lourdes is the hamlet of Bart- res and the old farmstead of the Langues family, which car ed for Bernadette when she was an infant, and where she lived and tended the sheep from June 1857, until the following Janu ary 28 — a fortnight before the first apparition. Besides these, there are a doz en other old houses intimately related to the story of Berna dette. But they have to be sought out, because many of them are hidden away in the busy life of activity of modern Lourdes. The city has about 600 hotels and boarding houses, and a host of shops offering souvenirs and re ligious articles to suit almost every taste. Bernadette herself foresaw that her native town would be tempted to cash in on her vis ions and on the continuing mir acle of faith of Lourdes. In her last hours she asked to send one final word to her fellow Lourd- ais: “Tell them not to become profiteers.” Most of the people of Lourdes apparently try to heed her re quest. Serving the pilgrims is the major industry of Lourdes today, however, and such an industry automatically takes on some commercial aspects. But all commercialism stops at the gates of the grounds of the shrine. 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