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To: Alex Murphy
"Holy water from Lourdes has a price. One French website, lourdes-water.com, offers a one-litre (35 British ounce) plastic bottle for 100 euros (135 dollars)."

That's just silly. First of all, my Googling of the website "lourdes-water.com" came up with no such web address. Second, Lourdes water is available for a donation of any size (translation: a dollar or two for a three-ounce bottle, less if you don't have even that) here in the US, and *no one* would charge $135 for one liter! Any reputable distributor would charge for packaging and shipping costs only, and that would be far, far less than is noted here in the article. This is either a typical MSM botch-job, or Expatica must have aspirations a la "The Onion."

5 posted on 08/29/2007 9:03:16 AM PDT by magisterium
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To: magisterium
That's just silly. First of all, my Googling of the website "lourdes-water.com" came up with no such web address. Second, Lourdes water is available for a donation of any size (translation: a dollar or two for a three-ounce bottle, less if you don't have even that) here in the US, and *no one* would charge $135 for one liter!

Sloppy reporting - the site is lourdes-water.org, not .com. They do sell Lourdes water for 100 Euros a liter, though. - http://www.lourdes-water.org/buy/lourdes-water-p-36.html

8 posted on 08/29/2007 9:11:13 AM PDT by Michamilton
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To: magisterium
First of all, my Googling of the website "lourdes-water.com" came up with no such web address. Second, Lourdes water is available for a donation of any size (translation: a dollar or two for a three-ounce bottle, less if you don't have even that) here in the US, and *no one* would charge $135 for one liter!

It's .org, not .com

And you are correct. It isn't $135, it's $134.16 for a jug, $20 for the 3 oz airplane size.

http://www.lourdes-water.org/buy/index.php?currency=USD

You know, these folks could give the televangelists a run for their money in ripping off the gullible.

14 posted on 08/29/2007 11:14:36 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: magisterium

I have found a reputable distributer of Lourdes Holy Water, who are a charitable organisation providing Lourdes water and souvenirs far cheaper than all the other websites out there, this was the website:

www.directfromlourdes.com

I was very happy with their service and they even lit some candles for me at the grotto and sent me some free gifts with my order.


64 posted on 10/20/2007 4:12:16 AM PDT by catholicenglishman
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