Bryce's Corner

Church or Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes It was about one year after we had visited the sites of the Holy Land when we decided to embark on another tour this time to the historical and religious sites in and around Europe which covered countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy and France. As part of the tour were two main sites, one being Fatima in Portugal and Lourdes in France which I’d like to recount. For all of those who wouldn’t be knowing, Lourdes is a small village in France where Mother Mary is thought to have made her apparition to St. Bernadette and a small spring arouse from a cave where St. Bernadette was inside which is now a grotto along with a cathedral built at the side of it. At Fatima,Mother Mary is also said to have made her apparition to Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta. We were on our coach bus , I would presume coming from Barcelona in Spain where I could remember we had visited the stadium over there and also the official FCB Barcelona store al...

It was around six to seven years back, my family and I had decided to go on a pilgrimage to the sites of the Holy Land which include places keenly mentioned in the Bible which have a connection with the life of Jesus and apostles as well as the other stories of the lives of the Israelites mentioned in the Old Testament. So we had enrolled in for a 'Holy Land Tour' organized by a tour company by the name of 'Emirates Tours' which had their meeting of all the people enrolled in for the tour at our church in Sharjah where they had distributed the related itinerary information and tickets which is still fresh in my memory till date, especially the thrill of receiving the caps to be worn when touring was what had brought in that bit of excitement as I looked forward to the tour. The day that we were all waiting for at last finally arrived. We headed off to the airport where we had our tickets confirmed for a flight to Jordan via Bahrain on Gulf Air. We boarded both th...