KING EDWARD ABROAD
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received April 22, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. King Edward is now staying at Pau, in the South of Prance. His Majesty has been on a motoring tour in the Hautes-Pyrenees, visiting Cantenets and Argeles-Gazost. On his return journey the King visited Lourdes, and stood in the grotto of the Church of the Rosary with uncovered head while a procession of pilgrims passed. His Majesty will leave Biarritz on Tuesday next, reaching London next day. Louix] is famous as a place of Catholic pilgrimage in Prance, being visited annually by 300,000 pilgrims. The Basilica and the magnificent subterranean Church of the Eosary are noteworthy, hut chief interest centres in the grotto, in which the Virgin Marv is said to have appeared to a peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, in 1858. and disclosed to her the miraculous property of the spring which the pilgrims visit.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7110, 23 April 1910, Page 1
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