In Westouter stands one of Belgium's first Lourdes grottos in a beautiful setting. The Lourdes grotto is only tens of metres from the street. Inside the grotto, as is customary...
Next to the buildings of Saint Sixtus Abbey, opposite the 'De Rakkertjes' nursery, there is a Lourdes grotto in Saint Sixtus Wood, about 400 metres from the road. A wide path leads visitors to…
The Lourdes Grotto in Heide, a village belonging to the municipality of Kalmthout, holds a special place within a former monastery complex. The grotto is located next to the church building…
The Lourdes Grotto from 1911 is situated on the outskirts of Essen, not far from the road to Roosendaal in the Netherlands. What's special about the Lourdes Grotto is that it is located in a...
In 1934, the Lourdes Grotto was built by Jef van Dessel (*1903), a former police officer from Aarschot, following a pilgrimage by bicycle to the Sanctuary of Lourdes in the south of France.…
The creation of the Lourdes grotto in Wommersom is due to a personal event. Louis Lambert (*1936) is a devotee of Mary and frequently visits the Sanctuary in Lourdes, France. Through a...
The name “Wildert” already appears in 1412 and refers to “wilderness”. The place where the village would later be built was then an uninhabited, overgrown area. In Wildert, a sub-municipality of Essen,…
An example of a well-kept Lourdes grotto can be seen in Achterbroek. Starting from the Kalmthoutsesteenweg, you enter a path lined with trees, shrubs, and plants on both sides, a beautiful entrance...
In Essen, the border town with the Netherlands, there are several Lourdes grottos. In Nollekensstraat, near the De Bijster Residential Care Centre, there is one at the back of the garden, by the rear of the kitchen and the dispensing of...
The Lourdes Grotto was built in 1941 using rubble from bombed buildings in Rotterdam, during the Second World War 1939-1945. The purpose of creating the grotto is an expression of Mary…
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