Free visit of the Petit Lourdes

Name: Visite libre du Petit Lourdes
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Le petit Lourdes

Petit Lourdes is a Marian sanctuary located in the town of Hérouville Saint-Clair.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

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The history of Petit Lourdes began in 1870 when the congregation of the Brothers of the Christian Schools founded a novitiate on a farm on the banks of the Caen Canal by the sea.
In 1879 Mr.Dubosq, a wine merchant from Rouen, made a donation to the congregation and made a vow to have a "Petit Lourdes" built on the site in recognition of the miraculous healing of his wife in Lourdes. The work was carried out from 1879 to 1885. The Petit Lourdes d'Hérouville-Saint-Clair is the faithful reproduction in 2/3 of the shrine of the Marian city with a chapel consecrated in 1882, laces inaugurated in 1885 as well as a grotto and its source.
Today the site is preserved and enhanced thanks to the association for safeguarding the heritage of the Petit Lourdes of Hérouville-Saint-Clair. The place now offers the same face as in 1879 and allows visitors a time trip of 140 years back.

À propos du lieu

Le petit Lourdes

708 rue des Sources, 14200 Hérouville-Saint-Clair

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In 1879, a wine merchant of Rouen, of which the wife had been cured, according to him, in Heavy, made a donation on condition that(provided that) is made a reproduction in miniature of the place of presumed appearance. After works in 1879/1880, consecration took place in 1882\. In 2013 having undergone important degradations, the church was closed. In June, 2015, the Association of protection(saving) of the heritage of the Young Heavy to Hérouville-Saint-Clair, thought "The friends of the Young Heavy", was created. She(It) has as object the Heavy implementation of the «project of animation of the Young», the interview(maintenance) of places and their spiritual animation.