Lourdes Basilica

In 1922, with the work still unfinished, the faithful celebrated the first mass in the Church of Lourdes together with Bishop Dom Cabral. Less than a year later, on March 19, 1923, the church was elevated to the status of parish. Its first parish priest was Father Sebastião Pujol. In 1958, the solemn consecration of the Church of Lourdes took place, elevated, by an act of Pope Pius XII, to the category of Basilica.