More than 200 military received this Saturday, May 17, baptism in the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Lourdes (France), as part of the international military pilgrimage in which some 17 thousand people participate until tomorrow.
“More than 200 catechumens received this morning the baptism in the sanctuary of #Lourdes. A moment always moving and first step of a path of faith and conversion that takes us to Christ,” says the Marian sanctuary in his X account.
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More than 200 catechumens received baptism this morning at the sanctuary of #Lourdes.
A moment always moving and the first step in a path of faith and conversion that leads us to Christ. pic.twitter.com/mgmMYwskYA
-Notre-Dame de Lourdes Sanctuary (@lourdes_france) May 17, 2025
The Mass, in which these brothers joined the Catholic Church through baptism, was held in the Basilica of San Pío X, inside the Lourdes sanctuary.
The 65th International Military Pilgrimage (PMI) This 2025 of three days of events for the military and their families consists of, which this time has as its motto “military, pilgrims of hope”, and which is led by the military bishop of France, Mons. Antoine de Romanet.
This morning is celebrated at the Saint-Pie X basilica of the sanctuary of #Lourdes The mass of the Christian initiation of the international military pilgrimage.
More than 200 pilgrims will notably receive the sacrament of #baptism. pic.twitter.com/eFUhDAAodr
-Notre-Dame de Lourdes Sanctuary (@lourdes_france) May 17, 2025
This Saturday, the pilgrimage also included the leap of several paratroopers of the Air Force, as well as an International Military Music Festival.
Tomorrow Sunday there will be Mass in the Basilica from 9:30 (Time of France) and the rosary will be prayed at 15:30 in the Mariano Sanctuary Grotto.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.