Some 30,000 persons, including "many" disabled or ill pilgrims, were evacuated from the Marian shrine in Lourdes, France on Sunday, August 15th in response to a bomb scare. Police reportedly received an anonymous bomb threat which claimed that four explosive devices had been planted on the grounds and would go off that day at 3 p.m. The threat was apparently a hoax and the shrine was reopened prior to 5 p.m. the same day, the feast of the Assumption.
Related: Marian Apparitions
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