Lourdes - the power of faith

150 years have passed from the apparition of Immaculate Conception to Bernadette Soubirous and Lourdes always is destination of several pilgrimages in the name of faith and hope.

All the word sick people becoming more and more asking grace near the cave and voluntaries help and take care of them pushing on the wheels chair taking to different faith places.

Lourdes inaugurated this year the jubilee year : the 2008 of the anniversary with more than 6 milion of people during the year become the most visited Christianity pilgrimages place.

My photographic report want to focus the attention on what happens inside, behind the scenes of the machine of consumerism of the faith, observing how young and old, innocent and sinners come in this mythical and sacred in search of a religious experience intense.

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