Lady of Lourdes Bracelet

Why a Grotto?

In 1858, St. Bernadette Soubirous, while collecting wood near a grotto in France, encountered Our Lady several times, sometimes in the presence of hundreds of people. Mary told Bernadette there that she was the “Immaculate Conception”. The Grotto where Mary appeared and the spring that started to flow there have been the source of countless miracles and the attraction of thousands of pilgrims.