I went to Lourdes many years ago to help people with UNITALSI, it was a quite strange experience cos the work was very hard and stay so many hours a day with sick persons, pull they wheelchairs etc etc... but I learnt a lot from that experience, this is another story anyway. What I still clearely remember is the feeling of that place: there is so much faith in the air that you can really taste it, but on the other hands there is a lot of evil too and the night in the city of Lourdes (outside the holy place) seems to be a sort of Sodoma and Gomorra reincarnation. I've seen there may people praying for a miracle for themselves, other badly sick people praying not for themselves but for others... and I've seen a real exorcism too... don't think to the film, the real thing is really terrifying, and when I saied myself "ok, she doesn't turn har had 360 degrees so this isn't frighten..." I was really shocked by how she could shout loud and over all how a 65 years frail old woman alone could hit a guard with a knock out punch and had to be blocked by 6 people... I think I'll never forget about that.
So maybe the holy whater can be used to wash your dishes but I can assure you that the place where it comes from is really really strange.
regards, Lorenzo
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