Bomb Scare at Lourdes

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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The Assumption

The feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary falls this year on Sunday (8/15/10). The following are some related resources...

* Assumption Reflections (Quotes From Popes, Saints)

* Proclamation of the Assumption (Munificentissimus Deus, Pope Pius XII)

* Blessed Virgin Mary

* Assumption Coloring Page

Note: The Rorate Caeli blog is asking Catholics to participate in the 'Rosary to Halt Construction of NYC Mosque' Facebook effort by saying the Rosary on Sunday. [For more on the Holy Rosary, please click here]

"Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified." [DR Trans., Ps. 131:8 (132:8)]

"[B]y the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory. Hence if anyone, which God forbid, should dare willfully to deny or to call into doubt that which we have defined, let him know that he has fallen away completely from the divine and Catholic Faith." (Pope Pius XII, "Munificentissimus Deus", November 1, 1950 A.D.)

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