LOURDES PILGRIMAGE
10,000 Great War Veterans IMPRESSIVE SCENE Paris. November 5. An impressive scene was witnessed at Lourdes with 10,000 war veterans praying before the Grotto of the Virgin at a pilgrimage organised by priests who had ministered to the soldiers in war-time. Some were seathless. merely fulfilling battlefield vows, but the majority were sufferers from gas and shell-shock. Some were beyond any aid. The Archbishop of Lille celebrated a Pontifical Mass in the open air.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 37, 7 November 1933, Page 9
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