SCENE AT LOURDES
TEN THbUSAND VETERANS
PILGRIMS BEFORE GROTTO
(Received November 6, 2 p.m.)
PABIS, 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 ministertd to the soldiers' in wartime. Some wore scathless, merely fulfilling1 battlefield vows, but *the majority were sufferers from, gas and shellshock. Some were beyond any aid. The Archbishop of Lille celebrated k' ' Pontificial 'Mass in the open air.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 110, 6 November 1933, Page 8
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82SCENE AT LOURDES Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 110, 6 November 1933, Page 8
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