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Circular letter from the Grand Hospitaller
Your Excellencies,
Dear Presidents,
Dear Procurators,
Dear Regents,
Dear Confreres,
Dear Friends,
Due to the diffusion of the COVID-19 pandemic, the governmental restrictions set up in many countries and the closing of the Sanctuary of Lourdes, for the first time in its history, the Marian Pilgrimage proposed by the French Association cannot be organized.
As we will not have the opportunity to gather together in our annual International Pilgrimage to Lourdes and on several other occasions previously scheduled and then cancelled in order to safeguard the health of the Order’s members and volunteers, as well as of their families and of the Malades we take care of, I would like to share with you this novena against COVID-19, offered by the Rectors of many sanctuaries dedicated to the Virgin Mary, so that she may intercede to deliver the world from a major epidemic in 2020.
It might represent for us an opportunity to join in together and offer our prayers for the sick and for those at risk of suffering from the pandemic as well as for the entire medical community.
Best confraternal regards.
Dominique de La Rochefoucauld-Montbel
