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LOURDES Apparitions - Message - Spirituality

This new film, directed by Christian Salès, offers a different approach to Lourdes and the story of Bernadette Soubirous. The narration is filled with emotion and feeling. The 120-minute Special Edition DVD is presented in a case with a self-adhesive medallion of the virgin.

FILMS INÉDITS 200 minutes 2008
Chaque année, six millions de pèlerins viennent à Lourdes. Que viennent-ils chercher ? Ce DVD propose de mieux comprendre Lourdes et de lever le voile sur son mystère.

FILM LOURDES Apparitions – Message - Spiritualité
Château de Lourdes, Le Message de Lourdes, Moulin de Boly, Le Cachot, Église Paroissiale, Ancien hospice, Procession Eucharistique, Basilique Saint-Pie X, Bénédictions des malades, Grotte de Massabielle, Procession Mariale aux flambeaux, Messe de nuit à la Grotte, Nevers.


11 audio language and subtitles (FR, IT, ES, EN, OC, DE, NE, PL, PT, HR, RU).

Original Music : OC et Lithurgie de Lourdes

BONUS 13 films exclusifs
Les 18 Apparitions, Les Miracles de Lourdes / Dr Patrick Theillier – Responsable du bureau médical, Bernadette Soubirous à Nevers, Prier le chapelet, Chemin de Croix, Vitraux de la Basilique Supérieure, Mosaïques de la Basilique du Rosaire, Crypte des Sanctuaires, Trésor de Lourdes, Cartes postales anciennes, Confidences d’un Hospitalier,Témoignage d’un Pèlerin, Jubilés 1908, 1958, 2008 par Mgr Jacques Perrier - Evêque de Tarbes et Lourdes.



BONUS
The 18 Apparitions 8¹15
Bernadette Soubirous' 18 Visions and the Message of Lourdes in a digital animation film by illustrator Nauriel (Dargaud).

The Miracles of Lourdes / Dr Patrick Theillier 7¹10
Dr Theillier is Director of the Medical Bureau in Lourdes, and as such is responsible for authenticating unexplained healings. He explains how the miracles of Lourdes have always touched every dimension of the individual's being – physical, mental and spiritual.

Bernadette in Nevers 39¹30
Bernadette remained at Saint Gildard as an auxiliary nurse and sacristan for 13 years, although was often ill herself.
Following Bernadette to Nevers, Saint Gildard's Convent, Saint Joseph's Chapel, Notre-Dame-des-Eaux, "The Grotto in Lourdes - Nevers 1884" by Nicolas Joanne, Director of the Espace Bernadette Soubirous-Nevers et Geneviève Pagès–Sister of Charity of Nevers.

Prier le chapelet 1¹50 / Praying the Rosary 2¹20
Two chaplains from Lourdes, one French and one Scottish, explain how to pray the rosary. By Father Emmanuel De Butler, Benedictine (OSB), and Father Martin Moran, Oblate of Mary Immaculate (OMI).

Chemin de Croix / The Way of the Cross 8¹30
Follow Italian, French, German and Spanish pilgrims around the 15 Stations of the Cross in Lourdes, where 115 characters in patinated cast iron portray Jesus' progress to Calvary.

Vitraux de la Basilique Supérieure / The Stained-Glass Windows of the Upper Basilica 3¹20
The stained-glass windows of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception retrace the entire story of the Virgin Mary, up to the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in 1854 and the apparitions in Lourdes in 1858.

Mosaïques de la Basilique du Rosaire / Mosaics in the Rosary Basilica 4¹40
Including the latest Rosary mosaics by Father Rupnik.

Crypte des Sanctuaires / The Crypt 2¹40

Trésor de Lourdes / Museum of Precious Objects 2¹10

Cartes postales anciennes / Retro Postcards 3¹20
The Pierre Reboulin private collection.

Témoignage d¹un Pèlerin / Pilgrim Testimony 4¹40
Why make a pilgrimage to Lourdes? How does one organise a pilgrimage? What is a 'hospitaller'? A pilgrim recounts.

Confidences d¹un Hospitalier / Hospitaller insight 3¹30
A hospitaller describes the cure he witnessed and explains what Lourdes means to visitors.

Les Jubilés / Jubilate 1908, 1958, 2008 4¹05
Mgr Jacques Perrier, Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, comments the Jubilate of 1908, 1958 and 2008.

Six million people visit Lourdes every year. What do they hope to find? What do they come to see? A tourist destination? A pilgrimage site? Something else? Follow us as we show you around Lourdes and reveal what attracts so many people...

Located in France, at the foot of the Pyrenees, Lourdes developed around a rocky peak on which a castle had been built. One legend recounts that, long ago, the Saracen Mirat defended this very town against Charlemagne. After a long siege, an eagle dropped a trout at the chateau, fresh from the mountain stream of Pau. Mirat immediately offered the fish to Charlemagne. Seeing that the castle still had a supply of fresh food, Charlemagne offered Mirat a deal: he could keep the town, but had to agree to convert to Catholicism. As his baptismal name the Saracen chose Lorus, which would later give rise to 'Lourdes'.

In 1858, some very strange things happened in this small Pyrenean town. A Lady appeared eighteen times to a 14-year-old girl called Bernadette Soubirous. The visions took place in the Grotte de Massabielle. Bernadette was always the only one to see and hear her visions, but was never alone in the Grotto: more and more people would come to pray and observe.

This is the house where Bernadette was born in 1844: Le Moulin de Boly. Her father was a miller, but the family business was too rudimentary to survive the age of industrialisation. Ruined, the Soubirous family resorted to a damp, dark cell in the former prison, 'Le Cachot'. This is where Bernadette lived on 11 February 1858, the day she set off for the Grotte de Massabielle. Here is the parish church where Bernadette was baptised in this very baptismal font. The chapel of the former hospice is where Bernadette made her First Holy Communion, immediately prior to her last vision.

Bernadette related her visions and acted on them. One day, the Lady who spoke to her in Occitan revealed her identity: "I am the Immaculate Conception". Another day, the Virgin said: "Go and drink from the spring and wash in its waters. Eat the grass growing there." Bernadette could not see a spring so started to scratch at the earth. Her fingers uncovered a spring, hitherto unknown. She would go on to explain: "I only found a little muddy water. But on my fourth attempt, I could drink."

The public authorities and the clergy immediately became involved. The former started by closing the Grotto to the public, and Monsignor Laurence, the Bishop of Tarbes, declared the visions authentic. Astounding healings have regularly occurred since those days, attributed to the waters in sanctuaries erected to accommodate the pilgrims' prayers. Today, Lourdes is the second biggest Catholic pilgrimage destination in the world, after Rome.

Pilgrims and the ailing travel from every corner of the world in search of healing for body and soul. Volunteers assist those who suffer. This atmosphere of mutual help creates links of sharing and warmth between all generations. Lourdes exudes a unique aura, full of humanity and hope.

Bernadette:
After her Visions, Bernadette yearned for the religious life, which she commenced at Lourdes hospice. It was run by the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, who subsequently sent her to the order's headquarters for training. Let's follow Bernadette to Nevers… Bernadette remained at Saint-Gildard's convent for 13 years, working as an auxiliary nurse or in the sacristy. After frequent bouts of illness, she died at the age of 35. Exhumed some thirty years after her death, then twice again, she seemed simply to slumber.