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Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine, Villianur

Villianur, India

Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine, Villianur
Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine, Villianur. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Villianur, Puducherry (Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Lourdes) is a Catholic Marian shrine and a parish church in Villianur, Puducherry, India. The shrine is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Lourdes. Pope Leo XIII issued a pontifical decree of coronation on 21 February 1886 towards the venerated Marian statue and declared the site an official Marian shrine. The former Archbishop of Pondicherry, François-Jean-Marie Laouënan executed the rite of coronation on 8 May 1886.

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