Healing Pools Lourdes

There are seventeen of these healing pools that are located near the miraculous cave and right next to the river. These pools are visited by more than four hundred thousand people annually. These visitors, who are usually sick or with ailments, hope that they will be cured after immersing in the waters of the pool. While only a couple of miraculous cases were confirmed by the Catholic Church for the past twenty years, people are still continue to flock these healing pools. Among the attractions in Lourdes, these pools are testimonies to the faith that a lot of people have over the healing powers of the spring that appeared after Bernadette's apparitions.