PATHETIC SCENES
PILGRIMS LEAVING FOR LOURDES (Australian Press Association.) London, May 15. Pathetic scenes were witnessed at the departure from Victoria for Lourdes of a thousand pilgrims, with two hundred sick and seventy carrying cases. It took an hour to embark them on the white train on stretchers, bath chairs, and airpillowed beds. Some were like skeletons. some blind and lame. All were sustained by the hope of being he.ped by “Our Lady of the Grotto. Some were dyiug. “This is our last hope, remarked the sister of the youngest, a nine-year-old girl, a cripple, after eight operations. The helpless pLgrims sang. "Look Down. M other Marv ” and said prayers, with hun dreds of healthy plgrims kneeling on the platform. The Archbishop . Cardiff was the leader.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 193, 17 May 1928, Page 3
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