Carfin Lourdes Grotto
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Carfin Lourdes Grotto
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 24 Aug 2013
In the early 1920s Canon Thomas Taylor was moved to construct at Carfin a replica of the grotto at Lourdes. The construction work was carried out by willing volunteers, many of them men enduring unemployment during the Great Depression of the 1920s. It has become a place of pilgrimage for Roman Catholics from central Scotland and further afield. The information boards in this grotto tell the story of Canon Taylor's project.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.806091
Longitude
-3.955553