Lourdes Pilgrimage

Our annual pilgrimage to Lourdes is one of the highlights of the year for people who are part of the Catholic Church in the West of England.

Bishop Declan leads the pilgrimage which begins on Friday 20 August and runs until Friday 27 August.  

To find out more and make your booking contact our Pilgrimage Director Deacon David Wakefield at our special Lourdes email address lourdes@cliftondiocese.com. Deacon David can answer your questions and any concerns you may have.

cliftondiocese.com has much more about Lourdes in our popular 'Lourdes Lives' podcast series.  Our series celebrated the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous.  Many people from around our diocese told us their amazing stories of Lourdes.  You can still hear them online. An award-winning edition of BCfm's Face to Faith will also give you more of an idea of what a pilgrimage to Lourdes is like. 

In 2009 Deacon David's innovative iPilgrimage brought Lourdes closer to people in our diocese.