Lourdes 2025

Leeds Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes Fri 4th – Thurs 10th July 2025. Bookings are now open with Tangney Tours. The theme for this year is ‘With Mary, Pilgrims of Hope’, to coincide with the Jubilee Year, a year of Grace. The Jubilee is a major...

RIP Sr Anne Hammersley CP

On Friday 26 July, we learned with great sadness of the death in St Gemma’s Hospice of Sr Anne Hammersley CP.  May she rest in peace. For many years Sr Anne was the Retreat Director of The Briery Retreat Centre in Ilkley. During the course of her religious life and...

Papal Honour for Lourdes Stalwart

Mr Bob Lavery, from the Diocese of Leeds, who was co-driver of the vehicle which transported the relics of St Bernadette during their visit to the UK last year, was awarded a papal medal last month in recognition of his service to the Church at a Mass in Lourdes. Fr...

Leeds in Lourdes 2023

From Our Own Correspondent During the second week of July almost 500 pilgrims from the Diocese of Leeds made the journey to southwest France to take part in the annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, a tradition that now dates back almost a...

The Marian Apparitions of Lourdes – A New Animation Series by HCPT

Below is a link to YouTube that opens a series of short animations, produced by HCPT, describing how St Bernadette was called by the Blessed Virgin Mary. The animations are very good and the short narratives about the apparitions are told simply and in short videos....

New Film Recalls the 2022 St Bernadette Relic Tour

The Relic Tour reached 1 in 4 UK Catholics, with many thousands of people actively participating in the visit. On Thursday 1 September 2022, the relics of St Bernadette Soubirous began a 11,500-mile journey from the Sanctuary in Lourdes to UK churches, cathedrals, a...