Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine
Villianur, India
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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
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The Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Villianur, Puducherry, is a Gothic Revival Catholic church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Pope Leo XIII issued a pontifical decree recognizing the site as an official Marian shrine on 21 February 1886, and Archbishop François-Jean-Marie Laouënan performed the coronation ceremony on 8 May 1886, consecrating the venerated Marian statue at its heart.
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- Villianur, India
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