Catholic Church in France

Lourdes (, also , ; ) is a market town situated in the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for its Château fort, a fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its center.

Pontmain () is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France.

Title of Mary, mother of Jesus, related to her alleged apparitions in Lourdes

part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church

private Catholic university in Paris, France

French slavery law

Marian apparition

marian apparitions recognized by the Catholic church

Catholic society of apostolic life of traditionalist Catholic priests in full communion with the Holy See, focusing on the Tridentine mass

1871 Marian apparition

Marian apparition

assembly of Catholic bishops

Worker-priest () was a missionary initiative by the French Catholic Church in particular for priests to take up work in such places as car factories to experience the everyday life of the working class. A worker-priest was any priest who was "freed from parochial work by his bishop, lived only by full-time labor in a factory or other place of work, and was indistinguishable in appearance from an ordinary workingman".

Diplomatic post of the Holy See

international Catholic youth event

devotional influence of the Catholic church

young Roman Catholic association of the Christian faithful

church located in Aveyron, in France

Office of Revolutionary France

people and congregations who split from the Catholic Church in France following the Concordat of 1801

ecclestiastical rank among French bishops

title for the Virgin Mary

Roman College

Roman Catholic religious confraternity under the spiritual authority of the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes