Roman Catholics who can’t make it to France for Pope John Paul’s pilgrimage to Lourdes this weekend can now say a prayer and light candles there through the Web site Croire (“believe” in French.)

For five euro ($6.13), Croire will add e-mailed prayers to the intentions to be prayed for during the pilgrimage at the grotto where Saint Bernadette Soubirous saw visions of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, in 1858.

This is not a first, as Jews have been able to e-mail prayers to Jerusalem’s Western or Wailing Wall since 1996. ($1=.8162 Euro)

From Reuters.