Can you feel Mary's presence there? By classychr...
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Lourdes can be quite crowded, with bus loads of visitors, including elderly and handicapped persons. Your feelings of Mary's presence depends on your beleifs, if you beleive, you should feel Her presence everywhere anyway.
Hello There, I'm actually from Lourdes but leaving overseas. Glad to found someone asking questions about my hometown. Well it depends of your personal religious belief, but in any case it is definitely a place where you will feel at peace with yourself and you will definitely be moved deep inside of you. Whenever I go and pray I feel like crying cause the feeling is so overwhelming.
I guess for you there is only one way, just go there. And if you could not feel anything you can still visit around the region is beautiful
Take care.
Hi, I live half an hour from Lourdes.
It's nestled in the foothills of the Pyrénéees with a river running through it and very tightly packed with hotels (more per square mile than Paris). There are a lot of very old-fashioned shops offering tacky souvenirs run by over-bearing shopkeepers.
Once you get through all the tack and commercialism, the grotte is actually very peaceful. A lot of people find it unexpectedly moving after the contrast with the rest of the town. As for the presence of Mary, I cannot comment except to say that those feelings could be put down to expectation or they could be real.