Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
The feast is preceded by the cult of the “15 visits”, that is 15 consecutive days of prayers from January 27th to February 10th, in memory of the invitation of the Madonna to Saint Bernadette). The date of the first apparition of the Madonna in Lourdes is held on 11 February, and for this reason also of the inauguration of the artificial cave depicting that of Lourdes present in the mother church (built, by a vow of faith, by the miraculous Egidio Delli Ponti on his return from the French town) which was in fact inaugurated on 11 February (1933). The proclamation of the mother church of Pulsano as a “Marian sanctuary” also took place on 11 February 1948.
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