Lourdes Grotto

"Also worth mentioning among the external sacral monuments of the village is the Lourdes grotto consecrated in 1999 near the church...” * ; ; “Lourdes, 1858. We should see in the events of Lourdes not only the establishment of a Marian shrine, not only an exhortation to repentance, prayer, and the recitation of the rosary. Not even a pilgrimage site where the sick can be healed. ; Much more important here is the expression of psychological and pedagogical intent. The Holy Virgin calls her people (for now only on pilgrimage). And the pilgrims carry with them the news of the blessed activity of the philanthropic Blessed Virgin. This is greatly facilitated by the developing transportation, mass communication, and the beginning of globalization. Through the statues and caves of Lourdes, as well as the books, the caring goodness of the Holy Virgin (healing, hearing prayers) is on the one hand passed into public consciousness, and on the other hand has a very beneficial influence on popular religiosity. It becomes natural for people all over the world that in all their spiritual and physical troubles our heavenly mother is a powerful our helper and intercessor, and the call to repentance and prayer foreshadows the idea of atonement.” **