Antique Metal Our Lady Of Lourdes & St. Bernadette Shrine Music Box Souvenir

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Antique Metal Our Lady Of Lourdes & St. Bernadette Shrine Music Box Souvenir :
$125.00

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Rare - antiquevintage metal music box and figures
souvenir showing grotto and basilica of lourdes, france
with our lady of lourdes and st. Bernadettewith French inscription:
La Basilique, L\'Apparition, La Grotte - LOURDESMUSIC BOX WORKS JUST FINE - PLAYS THE LOURDES HYMN:
\'IMMACULATE MARY\'6\" tall, 3 1/2\" wide - 2 1/2\" depth (front to back) at the base
HOLLOW CAST METAL (sometimes called \'pot metal\')
Original finish was probably silver plated with Gold plated details.
This interesting piece is obviously a souvenir bought at Lourdes many yearsago.

Antique Metal Our Lady Of Lourdes & St. Bernadette Shrine Music Box Souvenir.

The box is app. 6\" tall, 3 1/2\" wide - 2 1/2\" depth (front to back) at the base HOLLOW CAST METAL (sometimes called \'pot metal\').

It has been opened several times and 1 of the holding forks has been re-soldered.

The music part is old. It plays well but there are a couple of broken off spokes. I have tried to show this in the pictures.

In case you don\'t know thestory of Bernadette:

Lourdes is founded on the apparitions of the BlessedVirgin to a poor, fourteen-year-old girl, Bernadette Soubiroux. The first apparition occurred 11 February, 1858.There were eighteen in all; the last took place 16 July, of the same year.Bernadette often fell into an ecstasy. The mysterious vision she saw in the hollow of therock Massabielle was that of a young and beautiful lady. \"Lovelier than Ihave ever seen\" said the child But the girl was the only one who sawthe vision, although sometimes many stood there with her. Now and then theapparition spoke to the seer who also was the only one who heard the voice. Thus, she one day told her to drink of a mysteriousfountain, in the grotto itself, the existence of which was unknown, and ofwhich there was no sign, but which immediately gushed forth. On another occasion the apparition bade Bernadettego and tell the Priest she wished a chapel to be built on the spot and processions to be made to the grotto. At first the clergy were incredulous.It was only four years later, in 1862, that the bishop of the diocese declared the faithful\"justified in believingthe reality of the apparition\". A basilica was built upon the rock of Massabielle byM. Peyramale, the parish priest. In 1873 the great \"national\" frenchpilgrimageswereinaugurated. Three years later the basilica was consecrated and the statue solemnly crowned. In 1883 the foundation stone of another church waslaid, as the first was no longer large enough. It was built at the foot of thebasilica and was consecratedin 1901 and called the Churchof the Rosary. Pope Leo XIII authorized a special office and a Mass, in commemoration of the apparition, andin 1907 Pope Pius Xextended the observance of this feast to the entire Church; it is now observedon 11 February.

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