Lourdes Slides Series of slides created by Thomas Holmes Mason of Dame Street Dublin, relating to Sanctuary of Our Lady at Lourdes and its healing powers. The majority of the slides show individuals before and/or after their cure at Lourdes. Some have additional details including names, date cured, disease and date of recognition of the cure by the Lourdes Medical Bureau. Most of this text is in French. It is not clear when or why the slides were created, but it is possible they were created to illustrate a series of talks on Lourdes and its medical cures and miracles. The slides are marked with letters and numbers on small labels, which indicate five series with up to 50 slides per series, although none of the series is complete. Some of the labels are marked 'Hotel Bellevue 1929'. Many of the slides contain dates, the latest being 1932. [1930s]