Our Lady of Lourdes of Saint- Malo

Marian Advocation of Saint-Malo (Manitoba)
Popular devotion (not officially recognized by the Church)

La Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes of Saint- Malo (Manitoba) es un historical focus of Marian devotion de los French-Canadian settlers who populated the region. Inspired by the Grotto of Lourdes, it rose as a place of prayer and pilgrimage of the community and is preserved today in the surroundings of a parque provincial.

Main data

Origin and history

La Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes of Saint- Malo (Manitoba) es un historical focus of Marian devotion de los French-Canadian settlers who populated the region. Inspired by the Grotto of Lourdes, it rose as a place of prayer and pilgrimage of the community and is preserved today in the surroundings of a parque provincial.

The image and the sanctuary

The sanctuary is a gruta marijuana outdoor, integrated into a protected natural area. Devotion is concentrated in the grotto and the summer processions, in continuity with the mercy of the first French-speaking settlers of Manitoba.

Sponsorship and coronation

No consta a patronazgo civil ni a canonical coronation documented from the image. Its value is that of a historic place of popular Marian devotion.

Party and devotion

The devotion intensifies the August 15, solemnity of the Assumption, with summer processions that gather the community by the grotto.

Link to the Rosary

As a Grotto of Lourdes, Saint- Malo is attached to the Rosary that the Virgin prayed in her apparitions. The seasonal processions accompany the prayer of the Rosary before the grotto, keeping alive the Marian prayer inherited from the French-Canadian settlers.