| SupremeMasterTV.com -- THE WORLD AROUND US The Sanctuary of Lourdes in Santiago, Chile (InSpanish). Episode 1662, Air Date: 3 April 2011. Script Today's The World Around Us will be presented in Spanish, with subtitles in Arabic, Aulacese (Vietnamese), Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Thai. Halo lovely viewers and welcome to The World Around Us. Today we will visit the beautiful Chilean Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes. It was in 1858 that the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a 14-year old peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes in France. Bernadette claimed to have experienced a series of apparitions of a lady dressed in white and with a blue belt around her waist who eventually introduced herself as the Immaculate Conception, a name by which the Virgin Mary was known. Just 20 years later, a devotee of Lourdes, priest of Santiago Father Jacinto Arriagada, wished to build a temple in honor of Our Lady of Lourdes in Santiago, adjacent to Quinta Normal. A wealthy neighbor, Don Alejandro Vigouroux, donated land to build the church and a grotto similar to the one in France. That same year, the construction began for the first temple in Chile dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes. Let's hear more about the history of this sanctuary from Father Hector Garcia Ochoa. This shrine began humbly back to 1880. Look at the year, the Virgin of Lourdes appeared in 1858 in Lourdes in ... |
