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But a trip to France was not for every believer
within reach. Thereupon, the habit arose of including close
near home to experience the Lourdes feeling. Just
as many as 120 Lourdes caves were built in the Netherlands.
The Jesuit Fathers also built one, 50 years after the
Marian apparitions. A cave with pond behind their
monastery. The cave was built with mass bricks from a
brick factory. A nice find: those are exactly the whimsical
stone shapes that could pass for natural rock.
Many Dutch Lourdes caves have already disappeared.
Due to its rarity and because of its beautiful location, the
Lourdes grotto in Oudenbosch a national monument.