arch40

EN_01429527_3388

caption

TO GO WITH AFP STORY IN FRENCH BY MARIELLE VITUREAU Pilgrims walk on September 7, 2008 to kiss a rock in the Apparition chapel in Siluva, Lithuania, where thousands started arriving on September 6 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary. The pilgrimage, which will last until September 15, marks the first widely known apparition of the virgin in Europe. The Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to young sheperds on a large rock, holding a baby in her arms and weeping bitterly. AFP PHOTO / PETRAS MALUKAS (Photo by PETRAS MALUKAS / AFP)

special instructions

TO GO WITH AFP STORY IN FRENCH BY MARIELLE VITUREAU Minimum price 50PLN

headline arch40

created date 2008-09-07

credit PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/East News

source AFP

byline PETRAS MALUKAS

original transmission reference 000_Par2142000

weight 1,65MB

size 26cm x 18cm by 300dpi

keywords - Show

15, 2008, 400TH, 6, 7, A, ALLEGEDLY, AND, ANNIVERSARY, APPARITION, APPEARED, ARMS, ARRIVING, BABY, BITTERLY, BY, CATHOLIC, CELEBRATE, CHAPEL, CHRISTIAN, CRUCIFIX, EUROPE, FIRST, FRENCH, GO, HER, HOLDING, HORIZONTAL, ILLUSTRATION, IN, KISS, KNOWN, LARGE, LAST, LITHUANIA, MALUKAS, MARIELLE, MARKS, MARY, OF, ON, PETRAS, PILGRIMAGE, PILGRIMS, PROCESSION, RELIGION, ROCK, SEPTEMBER, SHEPERDS, SILUVA, STARTED, STORY, THE, THOUSANDS, TO, TRADITION, UNTIL, VIRGIN, VITUREAU, WALK, WEEPING, WHERE, WHICH, WIDELY, WILL, WITH, YOUNG,