Lourdes

Lourdes (matamshi: [luʀd]) ni mji mdogo (wakazi 15,000) chini ya milima ya Pirenei nchini Ufaransa. 

Inatembelewa na watu zaidi ya milioni 5 kwa mwaka kutoka na njozi za mwaka 1858, ambazo Kanisa Katoliki limethibitisha kwamba kweli Bikira Maria alimtokea msichana Bernadeta Soubirous Simulizi lake la matukio hayo limetafsiriwa kwa Kiswahili katika Masomo ya Breviari - Sikukuu za Bwana, za Bikira Maria na za Watakatifu - Ndanda Mission Press 1978, uk .

Kanisa hilo limethibitisha pia miujiza 70 iliyotokana na maombezi ya Bikira Maria kuwa haielezeki kisayansi.

Tanbihi
 INSEE commune file

Marejeo
 Collectif, Lourdes de la Préhistoire à nos jours, Musée Pyrénéen, 1987.
 Laurence Catinot-Crost, Autrefois Lourdes, Éditions Atlantica, 2005.
 Sébastien Barrère, Petite histoire de Lourdes, Cairn, 2014.

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 The Official Website of the Lourdes Sanctuaries
 Lourdes 2008 , Official site for the 150th anniversary of the apparitions
 Lourdes, by Robert Hugh Benson, 1914, from Project Gutenberg
 Catholic Association UK , details more information on Lourdes.

   Museum of Lourdes/Le-Petit-Lourdes Museum (in French)

Category:Bikira Maria
Category:Miji ya Ufaransa