An unexpected highlight of a trip to Lourdes

When visual media manager Nancy Wiechec and I went to Lourdes, France, to illustrate how pilgrims celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Marian apparitions, we never expected to be touched by a young woman who communicated with her smile and her hands.
Sick people come to Lourdes to be healed. But this woman came to help.
Although [...]

Lourdes anniversary recap

We had great coverage this week of the 150th anniversary of the Lourdes apparitions. Our photos and graphics manager, Nancy Wiechec, filed some wonderful images (like the one at the left) of pilgrims gathered in Lourdes to mark the date in 1858 when Mary appeared to St. Bernadette Soubirous, a poor, illiterate 14-year-old girl near [...]