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The dark forces hate Lourdes just too much for good reason. St. Bernadette still lies in state, uncorrupted in Nevers, France, for any disbelievers to witness first hand.

We have been to Lourdes several times, have watched the modernization creeping in, turning the site into a modern ecumenical park, save for the poor old basilica of St. Pius X which had been left to deteriorate. We tended to avoid the modernized areas and activities, but spent time at the traditional chapel up on the hill and at the grotto. We have seen and witnessed efforts to denigrate the grotto, even to divert the river so that it would interfer with visits.

Not a miracle, but something interesting happens to those who bathe in the painfully cold water of the spring. You are not given towels. You emerge from the immersion cold and wet in a damp cave-like environment and are instructed simply to get dressed. No worry about toweling down, you mysteriously dry while dressing. I am sure some here have experienced this too. Now, we haven't been there for five years or so, and maybe it changed...... We have no doubts of the healing properties, and keep a supply of the waters of the spring which were made into holy water by a traditional priest on site.

We have no doubt as well, plenty of pretenders and malevolent souls prowl about the site, seeking to play down the miracles.

[Possenti]

The dark forces hate Lourdes just too much for good reason.

Exactly. This is the same reason satainists sneak away with the Host to use in black masses after given communion-in-the-hand. We can tell who we are by who attacks us, Our Lord and Our Lady.

...and keep a supply of the waters of the spring which were made into holy water by a traditional priest on site.

My daughter was given about a quart of Lourdes water as a gift after her first communion with which our traditional priest blessed our new house.