Pope Leo in Lourdes: What to know about one of Catholicism’s most famous pilgrimage sites

Pope Leo XIV is visiting the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes this weekend as part of his four-day apostolic journey to France, which is the first official papal state visit to the country in 18 years.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”