Flameless Flickering Candles Bulk Battery Operated Set of 24 Fake Candles
Posted on 07/20/2022 6:35:27 PM PDT by marshmallow
Denver Newsroom, Jul 12, 2022 / 16:19 pm Half of the Chapels of Light at Our Lady of Lourdes shrine in France were destroyed by a fire during the night of July 10–11. The fire was quickly brought under control.
“Another hard blow for the Shrine at Lourdes, which didn’t need it,” tweeted Father Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, rector of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, lamenting the destruction.
“But the main thing is that there were no injuries and that pilgrims can continue to pray in the chapels that remain and continue to light candles,” he wrote.
In a statement, the shrine estimated damages to be a little more than $1.5 million.
An internal investigation was opened, but the cause of the fire is thought to be an accident, according to La Croix International, a French Catholic newspaper. Vincent Neymon, director of communications and resources for the Lourdes sanctuary, speculated that the wind caused a candle to ignite the wooden frame of one of the chapels.
Located since 2018 on the bank opposite the place where the shrine’s baths are located, the Chapels of Light are one of the quietest places for recollection, next to the grotto of the apparitions.
The four out of eight chapels that were destroyed are located further down the river that runs through the grounds of the shrine. The last two chapels are the ones that have been used so far to place the heaviest and largest candles.
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Do they have muslim fire insurance over there?
Flameless Flickering Candles Bulk Battery Operated Set of 24 Fake Candles
Then Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan and put fire in it, set incense on it, and presented strange fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them to do. So fire went out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them so that they died before the Lord.
— Lev. 10:1-2
With all the money the Catholic Church has you would think they would have watchmen or security systems for their most valuable assets.
Lourdes is not the money maker it used to be.
Marian shrines are not at all popular with Pope Frankie.
He prefers the Pachamama.
He’s too busy protecting the Church from the Catholics.
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