Pilgrimage To Lourdes (1946)

Lourdes, France. Various shots of the men and women walking along roads and through villages with rucksacks on backs, some on bicycles - all going to Lourdes for the holy communion for ex-prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. Several long shots of mass crowd of pilgrims at Lourdes. Priests giving holy communion to some of the pilgrims. People walking in procession. Priests walking in procession. (Lav. & Comb.) Information found in the old record Cuts 46/74. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957