More news on Votive Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Blackpool UK
An inheritance squandered
More news about the thanksgiving shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Blackpool. It is situated next to the Blackpool Victoria Hospital which in 1999 did not even have a Sunday Mass for the staff/patients. It would have been an ideal site for a hospital chaplaincy! Scheduled for demolition until being recently listed as an historic building, it is now designated to become an art gallery.
The Bishop was approached in 1999 and it was also suggested that this shrine would be ideal for a Traditional Catholic community, as it was not re-ordered at all following Vatican II. He politely refused and it has remained empty ever since.
Seems that Churches can be converted into anything but never, never under any circumstances must they be used for the Latin Mass.
More news about the thanksgiving shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Blackpool. It is situated next to the Blackpool Victoria Hospital which in 1999 did not even have a Sunday Mass for the staff/patients. It would have been an ideal site for a hospital chaplaincy! Scheduled for demolition until being recently listed as an historic building, it is now designated to become an art gallery.
The Bishop was approached in 1999 and it was also suggested that this shrine would be ideal for a Traditional Catholic community, as it was not re-ordered at all following Vatican II. He politely refused and it has remained empty ever since.
Seems that Churches can be converted into anything but never, never under any circumstances must they be used for the Latin Mass.
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