Notre Dame of Paris, France
Notre Dame of Paris, France: Visitors to the Cathedral surpass 30 million a year at a daily rate of 30,000 visitors. The cathedral treasury is notable for its reliquary which houses some of Catholicism's most important first-class relics including the purported Crown of Thorns, a fragment of the True Cross, and one of the Holy Nails. Photo: Gustavo Kralj/Gaudiumpress
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Notre Dame of Paris, France
Notre Dame of Paris, France: The Portal of Saint Anne is the portal on the west façade on the right. It was installed around 1200 before the other two portals of the façade. In its centre, there is a magnificent Virgin with Child in the Romanesque style, with all of the elegant and serene characteristics of majestic Virgins. She is seated under a canopy and on a throne, bearing a crown and a sceptre and holding her Son, who holds the Book of the Law, on her lap, attended by Angels, prophets, Kings and Saints. Photo: Gustavo Kralj/Gaudiumpress
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Notre Dame of Paris, France
Notre Dame of Paris, France: A group of prophets preside a central column located in the portal of the Last Judgement. The portal focuses on episodes related to the Apocalipsis. Photo: Gustavo Kralj/Gaudiumpress
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Notre Dame of Paris, France
Notre Dame of Paris, France: The Portal of the Virgin is on the left side of the west façade. It was built in the 1210s-1220s. According to Church tradition, it depicts the death of Mary, her ascension into Heaven and her coronation as Queen of the Heavens. Photo: Gustavo Kralj/Gaudiumpress
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Notre Dame of Paris, France
Notre Dame of Paris, France: Façade detail depicting Prophets and saints. Photo: Gustavo Kralj/Gaudiumpress
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Notre Dame of Paris, France
Notre Dame of Paris, France: on the right, Paul, James, son of Zebedee, Thomas, Philip, Jude and Matthew At the twelve apostles’ feet, there are medallions representing the virtues and their corresponding vices, a theme that is also found in the west rose window. Photo: Gustavo Kralj/Gaudiumpress
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Notre Dame of Paris, France
Notre Dame of Paris, France: The Portal of Saint Anne is the portal on the west façade on the right. It was installed around 1200 before the other two portals of the façade. On the trumeau, Saint Marcel, a 5th century Parisian bishop who vanquished a dragon symbolising the scourges his diocese was cursed with. Photo: Gustavo Kralj/Gaudiumpress
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Grotto of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Place of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Relics of St Bernardette Soubirous. to whom Our Lady appeared. Photo: Gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Place of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous. At the Shrine, many miraculous cures have taken place since 1858. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Shrine of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous, by the Gave River. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Shrine of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous, by the Gave River. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Pilgrims pray and burn Candles at the Grotto of the apparitions of Our Lady to St Bernardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Shrine of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous, by the Gave River. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Grotto of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Grotto of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: on spite of the cold winter temperatures, pilgrims pray and burn Candles at the Grotto of the apparitions of Our Lady to St Bernardette Soubirous. Photo: Gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Pilgrims pray and burn Candles at the Grotto of the apparitions of Our Lady to St Bernardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: on spite of the cold winter temperatures, pilgrims pray and burn Candles at the Grotto of the apparitions of Our Lady to St Bernardette Soubirous. Photo: Gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Place of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Michel, a worker or 35 years at the Shrine, changes the candles at Grotto of the apparitions of Our Lady to St Bernardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Pilgrims pray and burn Candles at the Grotto of the apparitions of Our Lady to St Bernardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Shrine of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous, by the Gave River. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: paternal House of St Bernardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Hundreds of thousands of candles are lit every year at the Shrine, place of the apparitions of Our Lady to St Bernardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Shrine of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous, by the Gave River. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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Lourdes, France
Lourdes, France: Place of the apparitions of Our Lady to St BErnardette Soubirous. Photo: gustavo Kralj/GaudiumpressImages.com
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