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Lourdes
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Lourdes a town in SW France, at the foot of the Pyrenees, which has been a major place of Roman Catholic pilgrimage since in 1858 a young peasant girl, Marie Bernarde Soubirous (St Bernadette), claimed to have had a series of visions of the Virgin Mary.
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Lourdes' season opener is wide open.
Newspaper article from: Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN); 9/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...But in the spring, not the fall." Lourdes and Goodhue went up-and-down, back...was a great game; we knew it would be. Lourdes is very good and their offensive line...defenses finally showed up," said Kesler. Lourdes had chances to win, needing only a field...
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Lourdes girls settle for moral victory in opener.
Newspaper article from: Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN); 12/2/2006; 700+ words
; ...be much wider. The youthful Rochester Lourdes girls basketball team showed glimpses...its season opener Friday night at the Lourdes gym, but victory went to the Eagles...experience and balanced scoring and beat Lourdes 56-44, keeping the Eagles at bay with...
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Lourdes Mon for MWRD Commissioner
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender; 11/4/2000; 700+ words
; Lourdes Mon for MWRD Commissioner Lourdes Mon is an accomplished educator, public servant and community...recognition of her passion and devotion to helping those in need, Lourdes has earned numerous awards and many accolades for her work as...
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Lourdes football team headed to the Dome.
Newspaper article from: Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN); 11/13/2006; 700+ words
; ...covered by a foot of snow like Rochester Lourdes did Saturday night, but more important...Bowl reaches the semifinal rouind. And Lourdes is one of them. The improbable season...and Gophers play in the Dome," said Lourdes senior Dan Lose, one of several heroes...
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Lourdes' Gores hits 100 yards in rushing.
Newspaper article from: Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN); 10/14/2006; 700+ words
; ...Last week at Byron, Frank Meilander led Lourdes rushers with 143 yards. In the same game...yards and two touchdowns to help lead Lourdes past Stewartville, 31-10, at cold...have four quality running backs," said Lourdes coach Mike Kesler, "and the defense...
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Lourdes muscles past Pine Island.
Newspaper article from: Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN); 9/16/2006; 700+ words
; ...and check out Friday night's Rochester Lourdes and Pine Island game for evidence. While Lourdes lists three players on its roster weighing...awfully big and physical, and talented." Lourdes muscled its way to a 27-8 win Friday night...
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Lourdes and Owens partner
Magazine article from: Toledo Business Journal; 8/1/2006; ; 695 words
; Lourdes College and Owens Community College have...to also earn a baccalaureate degree at Lourdes College while waiting for a clinical seat...Interdisciplinary Studies (BA-IS) degree at Lourdes College. "Owens Community College is...
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Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center Launches Advanced Healthcare Network With 3Com's New Large Enterprise Core Switching Systems.
Business Wire; 12/2/1998; 700+ words
; ...COMS) today announced that Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, southern New Jersey...other bandwidth-intensive applications Lourdes plans to implement to better serve its patients. Founded in 1950, Lourdes specializes in tertiary care and utilizes...
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H.S. Football / Stewartville 17, Lourdes 15.
Newspaper article from: Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN); 9/15/2007; 700+ words
; ...the year Friday night against Rochester Lourdes at John Marshall Stadium... and what...back-and-forth, 17-15 win over Lourdes in a Hiawatha Valley League Blue Division...Stewartville had marched from its 37 to the Lourdes 14 but time was running out. "We were...
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Lourdes boys meet Benilde-St. Margaret's in semifinal.
Newspaper article from: Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN); 10/30/2006; 700+ words
; ...SOCCER It's all there for the Rochester Lourdes boys soccer team, all the stuff it covet...rival Benilde-St. Margaret's, and Lourdes couldn't ask for more. "This is fun...Dome will be a great experience," said Lourdes coach Tom Kane, whose team last played...
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Bernadette of Lourdes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Bernadette of Lourdes Bernadette of Lourdes (1844-1879), a young peasant girl, saw 18 visions of the Virgin Mary, in a grotto in Lourdes, France. These visions, and the curing waters that still...
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Lourdes
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
Lourdes The healing Grotto of Bernadette at Lourdes, France, was constructed on the site where 14-year-old...the young miller's daughter, pilgrims have journeyed to Lourdes to seek healing from the waters of the natural spring that...
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Baird, Lourdes G.: 1935—: Judge
Book article from: Contemporary Hispanic Biography
Lourdes G. Baird: 1935—: Judge Lourdes G. Baird became one of the highest-ranking Hispanic women in the U.S. Justice Department when she was appointed U.S. attorney for the Central District of California in 1990. The post...
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Hinojosa, María (de Lourdes): 1961—: Journalist
Book article from: Contemporary Hispanic Biography
María (de Lourdes) Hinojosa: 1961—: Journalist In the mid-1980s María de Lourdes Hinojosa became the first Latina correspondent on National Public Radio (NPR). Her balanced and incisive stories on Latino life...
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Faith Healing
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...is the healing Grotto of Bernadette at Lourdes, France, which was constructed on the...daughter, pilgrims have journeyed to Lourdes to seek healing and salvation from the...During the centennial celebration of Lourdes in 1958, more than two million people...
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