Immaculées Conceptions

Belgium, 2011–2012 · 16 photographs

The thousands of Lourdes grottoes built across Belgium after the Marian apparitions of the 1930s.

In the early 20th century, Marian devotion exploded in Belgium. The Beauraing and Banneux apparitions in the middle of the 30’s economic crisis fascinated the crowds. Thousand of Lady of Lourdes Grottoes were built around the country offering a permanent image of the “Immaculate Conception” who appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes in 1858 to the devout.

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 2 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 3 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 4 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 5 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 6 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 7 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 8 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 9 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 10 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 11 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 12 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 13 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 14 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 15 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

Immaculées Conceptions, Belgium. Photograph 16 of 16 by Thomas Van Den Driessche

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