3/5 a miraculous place
  by Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA)
In this documentary, one learns how Lourdes became a pilgrimage site, who discovered it, and how that person died. The work tries to be complete in saying that the ancient Egyptians had such visions and that there were Marianic visions in Portugal and Yugoslavia after the French event.

This work only had one female interviewee and many more male ones. The fake French accents during readings may irritate some purists. This work had a few cheesy reenactments, but classic paintings and modern video recordings are the primary visuals here.

I was reminded of the "Alien" series in watching this. In those classic films, there are always people who want to wipe out the alien and others who want to preserve and worship it. Here, there are vision believers and skeptics. Recently in Chicago, a person said an image from dripping water in a tunnel was Mary. People kept visiting it until one person spray-painted the image, protesting that it was sacrilegious.

Supposedly, Madonna's daughter's name has two syllables where the "d" is not pronounced, in the Spanish fashion. Here, they use the French pronunciation in which there is one syllable and you do hear the "d".