Figure 1.--This 1928 photograph shows a crippled boy aalks in Lourdes France. |
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In the early Church, the remains of the saints as other icons came to be seen as having curative powers. Cathedrals vied with each other over the holy icons they possessed, in part to more effectively attract pilgrims (and their alms), many of which had aliments for which they were seeking cures. This became an important source of income. For the most part these medieval icons and the cathedrals and monestaries they enshrined no longer attract great attention. One exception is the shroud of Turin. There also are some shries that still attract pilgrims. Perhaps the most important is Lourdes in France. Lourdes was a small, little known market town in the French Pyrenees. It was here that Our Lady of Lourdes appeared to a peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, (1858). It became one of the greatest sites of Christian pilgrimage.
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