Instead, you would do well to go with your grandmother, Who knows, maybe a miracle will happen…(n.d.r.)
The alarm was raised by the National Coordination of Italian Pilgrimages, which fears the suppression of the special train service to Lourdes departing from Italy
Of Giorgia Baroncini
Ora Emmanuel Macron boycott train pilgrimages to Lourdes. The French president has considered blocking trains carrying i pellegrini to the Marian sanctuary.
As reported Libero, the alarm was raised by the National Coordination of Italian Pilgrimages which fears the suppression of the special train service for Lourdes departing from Italy and reporting “the very serious situation that all the associations that organize pilgrimages to Lourdes have been experiencing for years and have to live through. Or rather the weakest must live, the sick”, con “times of voyage scary (Also 10 hours longer than expected), stops for hours and hours in secondary French stations or in the heart of the transalpine countryside under the scorching sun”. Added to this are also the “constant increases in tariffs” e “the continuous strikes of French railway workers with trains blocked at the border and sent back without any respect for the people traveling”.
I pretexts for the boycott they are the most disparate and implausible, explained the Cnpi managers. The main cause of the decline is downgrading, by the French railways, of the trains headed to Lourdes. In recent years the convoys have gone from an average of 130/135 special trains of 2013 ai 30 scheduled for 2019.
Source: http://m.ilgiornale.it/news/2018/10/06/macron-boicotta-pellegrinaggi-in-treno-per-lourdes/1584815/