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Carfin Lourdes Grotto is a Catholic shrine in Scotland dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes and created in the early twentieth century. The " Carfin Grotto ", as the shrine is locally termed, was the brainchild of Canon Thomas N. Taylor (died 1963), parish priest of St. Francis Xavier 's Parish in the small, mining village of Carfin , which lies ...
Carfin has strong Irish Catholic links, which are exemplified in Carfin Grotto a famous pilgrimage place, with extensive gardens and a visitors' centre with cafe. It was built in the early 1920s, when parish priest, Canon Thomas Nimmo Taylor engaged the unemployed miners of the village to build a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes, allowing people in Scotland to venerate the Blessed Virgin without ...
The group organises annual Christian pilgrimages to Aylesford Priory in Kent and Carfin Lourdes Grotto near Motherwell in North Lanarkshire. The 2019 centennial of the Knights' foundation was celebrated with a special pilgrimage to Iona Abbey, which was founded by the Knights' patron saint, followed by a Mass offered on site.
St Francis Xavier – Carfin (includes National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Carfin) (1862, 1973) [34] Christ the King – Holytown (1975) Holy Family – Mossend (1868, 1884) [35] The Cathedral Parish, Motherwell (parish erected 2016) Cathedral of Our Lady of Good Aid, Motherwell (1873, 1900) [36] St Luke – Forgewood (1954, 1955) [37]
In his book, Battlefield Tourism: Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919–1939, David William Lloyd discusses Traynor as part of an interwar phenomenon of mass pilgrimage, with large numbers of British ex-servicemen making pilgrimages both to the replica of Lourdes at the Carfin Grotto and to ...
The original Lourdes grotto where the Lourdes apparitions occurred and where Lourdes spring water still flows.. A Lourdes grotto is a replica of the grotto where the Lourdes apparitions occurred in 1858, in the town of Lourdes in France, now part of the sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Carfin Grotto; Cathedral-Basilica of Our Crowned Mother of Palmar; Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar; Catholic Marian church buildings; Chapel of Notre-Dame de Posat; Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal; Our Lady of Charity; Church of Mary; Church of Notre-Dame-des-Vertus, Aubervilliers; Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel ...
Map of places in North Lanarkshire compiled from this list. The List of places in North Lanarkshire is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle golf course, historic house, hill fort, lighthouse, nature reserve, reservoir, river, and other place of interest in the North Lanarkshire council area of Scotland