The official Sanctuary of Lourdes page describing the Diocesan Association of Tarbes and Lourdes as a religious association under the French laws of 1901 and 1905, authorized to receive gifts, donations and bequests with full inheritance/transfer-duty exemption. States the Association oversees the Sanctuary's 3 basilicas, 25 chapels and the Grotto, and supports 35 permanent chaplains, confessors and seminarians, under episcopal authority and in communion with the Holy See.
Facts
Citation
PublisherSanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes (Diocesan Association of Tarbes and Lourdes)
URLhttps://www.lourdes-france.org/en/organisation-sanctuary-of-lourdes/diocesan-association-tarbes-lourdes/
Source Typeorganization primary source
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: the Sanctuary's own official page describing its own legal and organizational structure, an institutional self-account not independently audited. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Holy See directly: "authority and in communion with the Holy See."
This source names Lourdes directly: "The official Sanctuary of Lourdes page describing the Diocesan Association of Tarbes and Lourdes as a religious association under the French laws of 1901 and 1905, authorized to receive gifts..."
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This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Sacred Sites, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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