Catholic Herald: Flash flooding caused by heavy rains has forced officials to close the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. Authorities evacuated about 200 people, most of them from camping grounds near the shrine, after water levels rose quickly following heavy rain and unseasonal snowfall in the area a day earlier.
The Lourdes grotto, where St Bernadette Soubirous witnessed an apparition of Our Lady in 1858, was under as much as five feet of water, Mathias Terrier, who is in charge of communications at the shrine, told AFP. Read more here.
