We left our Toulouse hotel yesterday morning and drove 2-1/2 hours to the town of Lourdes, made famous by the apparitions of Mary, mother of Jesus, seen by a 14-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubirous, also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes. According to Wikipedia, “she was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in… Read More The Lourdes experience