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People pray in front of the grotto of the apparitions, at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France. Even though a pilgrimage peak was some months away, the shrine celebrated its wintery feast day in 2025 with a number of pilgrims who flocked to the mountain-based French holy site on the Feb. 11 anniversary of the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin to St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. (OSV News photo/courtesy Lourdes Sanctuary)

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