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Fertile Ground

From CNS: Bethlehem’s Milk Grotto brings faith, hope and sometimes babies:

The rows of framed letters and baby pictures are testimony that the Milk Grotto — where Mary is said to have nursed Jesus as the Holy Family fled to Egypt — has been much more than a pilgrimage to many couples…

One after another, parents from such far-flung places as Sri Lanka, the United States, Canada, Bermuda and England have written about the miraculous birth of their children after having prayed using the “milk powder” from the grotto…

The grotto is at least 2,000 years old and the early Christians came to pray here, he said, but the first structure was built over it around 385. 

The faithful have venerated the spot for its powers as early as the fourth century, he said, and local women of all faiths and denominations come here to pray for children, taking with them bits of the “milk powder” from the soft limestone found throughout the grotto. 

Holes the width of a finger can be found in several spots in the grotto ceiling of the newly renovated shrine, where over the years people have scraped out the fine dust to take home with them…

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  2. I really need to buy the milk powder from the grotto. My 3 daughters are unable to concieve I believe they may be granted a miracle with this powder.

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