Lourdes
Proper noun
Meaning
A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
A town in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitanie in the French Pyrenees, and site of a large Catholic pilgrimage.
A female given name from Spanish, from the Spanish epithet of Virgin Mary as Nuestra Señora de Lourdes.
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Phrases with the word
Examples
Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.
Lourdes is the Blackpool of Christianity.
I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.
I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.
I'm going to give my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Notre Dame Catholic Church on Friday, January 10, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. Burial will be at the Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery in Lourdes, Iowa.