history of the Fête des lumières de Lyon is intimately linked to Lyon's religious history. Since the Middle Ages, the city of Lyon has venerated the Virgin Mary, but it was more precisely in 1643, during a plague epidemic, that the city of Lyon placed itself under the protection of the Virgin. ...
entury, Pope Gelasius I associated this pagan rite of the 'Feast of Candles' with the presentation of Jesus in the temple and the purification of the Virgin. It is also said that this same Pope had Crepes distributed to pilgrims arriving in Rome. In churches, torches are replaced with blessed can ...
pilgrimage in France. 2- The city owes its fame to Bernadette Soubirous. In 1858, a fourteen-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous claimed that the Virgin had appeared to her several times in the small Massabielle grotto, not far from Lourdes, on the banks of the Gave de Pau. Locals began to ga ...
explore the themed paths: the cross garden with blood-red roses, the apothecary garden with fresh herbs, the promenade flowerbeds with natural topiaries, and the Virgin's enclosure adorned with pear trees, apple trees, roses, and clematis. • Discover the work of local artisans in an exhibition sp ...
isit the church of Notre Dame de la Mer. This beautiful 14th century Romanesque church houses the relics of the two Marys, Mary Jacoba (sister of the Virgin) and Mary Salome (mother of the apostles James the Greater and John). In the crypt, you can see a shrine containing the bones of Saint Sa ...
vangelization of the country from the 16th century, this carnival is also linked to Catholic figures and legends. The Pachamama is assimilated to the Virgin Mary and Tio Supay to the devil... A legend reports that in 1789, a fresco of the Virgin Mary would have appeared miraculously in one of the ...
