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As I glance at her finely-sculpted face, it seems like this young lady just slept a few hours ago and yet she’s been in this state for over a century.

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If you told a pre-historic man that one day he could fly 40,000 feet above ground and cross oceans, he would probably have growled, “Impossible!”

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Friends who have been there advised my traveling companion Raoul Tidalgo and me to take the plane so we would get to Lourdes faster but we opted to take the leisurely (look, Ma, no bumps all the way!) six-hour train ride (tight budget, you know) that gave us a glimpse of the countryside.

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FLORENCE, Italy: Exactly a year ago, I was in Paris on a very unexpected trip, which brought me to two great Christian pilgrimage sites, in Lourdes where our Blessed Virgin Mary appeared before a little girl named Bernadette Soubirous to proclaim that she was the Immaculate Conception, and to Rue de Bac, an obscure part of Paris, where the Virgin Mary appeared to a young girl named Catherine Laboure to ask her to craft the miraculous medal wherein millions have been made since and millions more continue to wear them to get the protection of our Blessed Lady.

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Today is the first Sunday of Advent, which comes from the Latin word “adventus,” a time of expectant waiting … in preparation for the coming of the Messiah.

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Last Friday dawn we flew on a Korean Air Airbus 330 for our familiarization tour to France with the group arranged and led by Aida Lim Uy of Fortune Travel, who brought along her grandson Christian Uy.

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In this age of coincidences and cures, of scientific breakthroughs and inexplicable interventions, of blind faith and blatant skepticism, why do over six million people still go to Lourdes each year, year after year, some over and over again, to seek a miracle?

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February 11 is celebrated in the Catholic world as feast day of our Lady of Lourdes.

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The annual observance of the descent of the Our Lady of Lourdes will take place tomorrow, Feb. 10, at the Basilica del Sto. Niño, right after the concelebrated mass at 5:30 p.m.

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                    [Title] => An afternoon with Bernadette
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As I glance at her finely-sculpted face, it seems like this young lady just slept a few hours ago and yet she’s been in this state for over a century.

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If you told a pre-historic man that one day he could fly 40,000 feet above ground and cross oceans, he would probably have growled, “Impossible!”

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135221 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1391760 [AuthorName] => Joanne Rae M. Ramirez [SectionName] => Newsmakers [SectionUrl] => newsmakers [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1096481 [Title] => Overnight in Lourdes [Summary] =>

Friends who have been there advised my traveling companion Raoul Tidalgo and me to take the plane so we would get to Lourdes faster but we opted to take the leisurely (look, Ma, no bumps all the way!) six-hour train ride (tight budget, you know) that gave us a glimpse of the countryside.

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FLORENCE, Italy: Exactly a year ago, I was in Paris on a very unexpected trip, which brought me to two great Christian pilgrimage sites, in Lourdes where our Blessed Virgin Mary appeared before a little girl named Bernadette Soubirous to proclaim that she was the Immaculate Conception, and to Rue de Bac, an obscure part of Paris, where the Virgin Mary appeared to a young girl named Catherine Laboure to ask her to craft the miraculous medal wherein millions have been made since and millions more continue to wear them to get the protection of our Blessed Lady.

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Today is the first Sunday of Advent, which comes from the Latin word “adventus,” a time of expectant waiting … in preparation for the coming of the Messiah.

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Last Friday dawn we flew on a Korean Air Airbus 330 for our familiarization tour to France with the group arranged and led by Aida Lim Uy of Fortune Travel, who brought along her grandson Christian Uy.

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In this age of coincidences and cures, of scientific breakthroughs and inexplicable interventions, of blind faith and blatant skepticism, why do over six million people still go to Lourdes each year, year after year, some over and over again, to seek a miracle?

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February 11 is celebrated in the Catholic world as feast day of our Lady of Lourdes.

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The annual observance of the descent of the Our Lady of Lourdes will take place tomorrow, Feb. 10, at the Basilica del Sto. Niño, right after the concelebrated mass at 5:30 p.m.

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