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How relevant is the Lourdes story today?  

By Maridol Ranoa-Bismark | February 18, 2023 - 10:44am

Fourteen-year-old Bernadette Soubirous was a most unlikely future religious rock star. 

Arts and Culture

An afternoon with Bernadette

By Danee Samonte | April 13, 2014 - 12:00am

As I glance at her finely-sculpted face, it seems like this young lady just slept a few hours ago and yet she’s been in this state for over a century.

Entertainment

The miracle of flight: ‘Don’t just believe in miracles; depend on them.’

By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez | October 8, 2013 - 12:00am

If you told a pre-historic man that one day he could fly 40,000 feet above ground and cross oceans, he would probably have growled, “Impossible!”

Newsmakers

Overnight in Lourdes

By Ricky Lo | August 16, 2013 - 12:00am

Friends who have been there advised my traveling companion Raoul Tidalgo and me to take the plane so we would get to Lourdes faster but we opted to take the leisurely (look, Ma, no bumps all the way!) six-hour train...

Entertainment

Lessons to learn on San Pedro Calungsod

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | October 27, 2012 - 12:00am

FLORENCE, Italy: Exactly a year ago, I was in Paris on a very unexpected trip, which brought me to two great Christian pilgrimage sites, in Lourdes where our Blessed Virgin Mary appeared before a little girl named...

Opinion

A warning from Our Lord Jesus: Be watchful!

By Bobit S. Avila | November 27, 2011 - 12:00am

Today is the first Sunday of Advent, which comes from the Latin word “adventus,” a time of expectant waiting … in preparation for the coming of the Messiah.

Freeman Opinion

A pilgrimage to Lourdes in France

By Bobit S. Avila | October 25, 2011 - 12:00am

Last Friday dawn we flew on a Korean Air Airbus 330 for our familiarization tour to France with the group arranged and led by Aida Lim Uy of Fortune Travel, who brought along her grandson Christian Uy.

Freeman Opinion

Lourdes: Where hope springs eternal

By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez | June 2, 2011 - 12:00am

In this age of coincidences and cures, of scientific breakthroughs and inexplicable interventions, of blind faith and blatant skepticism, why do over six million people still go to Lourdes each year, year after year,...

Newsmakers

Messages from Our Lady of Lourdes

By Eladio Dioko | February 10, 2011 - 12:00am

February 11 is celebrated in the Catholic world as feast day of our Lady of Lourdes.

Freeman Opinion

"Ang Pagkanaug" to be observed tomorrow

February 9, 2011 - 12:00am

The annual observance of the descent of the Our Lady of Lourdes will take place tomorrow, Feb. 10, at the Basilica del Sto. Niño, right after the concelebrated mass at 5:30 p.m.

Cebu News