Catholic piligrims on Vatican flight must dump Lourdes water

Posted on: Wed, 09/19/2007 - 11:29 By: Tom Swiss

From The Telegraph:

The passengers on board the Vatican’s first flight to Lourdes may have been pilgrims in search of spiritual healing, but they still had to obey anti-terrorism rules, it has emerged, after several of them had their holy water confiscated....
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The spring at the sanctuary at Lourdes, where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared in 1858, is famed for its miraculous healing powers, and every day long queues of believers wait to fill up their containers.