Lourdes National Piglrimage
Mid-August I covered the six-day 2009 Lourdes national pilgrimage for CIRIC, the Bayard Presse photo agency. I travelled from Paris on the “White Train” chartered to transport 439 Assumptionist pilgrims -178 of which sick or disabled. It took three hours to board everyone, set-up the disabled on stretchers, stack all the wheelchairs in the restaurant [...]
CDG Airport Prayer Area
Father Francis Truptil used to be Chaplain in the French army. He has seen the horrors of war up-close, taking care of soldiers’ mental and spiritual health.
Father Truptil is now the Chaplain for tens of thousands of passengers who move daily in and out of one of the world’s busiest airports. He will serve mass [...]