Colin Hart, director of the Christian Institute, called for Edinburgh City Council to ban the grotto.
Before beginning mass, the Pope prayed in the grotto where Gabriel is said to have told Mary she was carrying the baby Jesus.
Further north is the island of Patmos, where visitors can see the grotto where St John the Divine once lived and where, after a series of apocalyptic visions, he penned the Book of Revelation.
One of Christianity's most holy places, the site's focal point is the Grotto of the Nativity, a rectangular cavern beneath the church that has been considered the site of Christ's birth since at least the 2nd century.
Although speculation about the device had been intense, few in the audience knew yet what it was called or exactly what it would do, and there was a feeling of expectation in the room worthy of the line outside the grotto at Lourdes.
Columbia University is fourth on the Campus Grotto list of expensive colleges for the 2012-13 academic year, but most Ivy League schools often provide opportunities for families earning income under a certain threshold to attend for free through grants, and the benefit eliminates the need for student loans.
Its highlight is the Blue Grotto, a coastal cave filled with blue light.
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In summer the cave can get seriously crowded, so you may want to head to the less-visited Green Grotto on the nearby islet of Ravnik.
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For a while she lay on her back, watching the stars come out upon the ceiling of her grotto, listening to the little snores.
No matter how it began, today the 189sqm of mosaic grotto is a chance to gawp at the 4.6 million cockle, mussel, oyster and whelk shells festooned in elaborate mosaics covering every surface.
It is possible that the Margate Shell Grotto in Kent has been around for more than 200 years.
After negotiating their way down a series of steps carved into the steep rock face, explorers of the Blue Lake Grotto are faced with a deceptively deep pool of limpid blue-green water.
It links the Ice Palace, a grotto of ice sculptures, with the Sphinx Hall observatory.
Found in a grotto in the Pyrenean foothills of France in 1922, there is something cubist about her protuberant breasts, buttocks and stomach so much so that an intrigued Picasso kept two copies in his studio.
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She deliberately sets aside the question of whether or not a 14-year-old peasant girl called Bernadette Soubirous did in fact see the Virgin Mary near a grotto outside Lourdes on 18 occasions between February and July 1858.
Eleven different pumps recirculate water through the mountain, which includes a grotto area with a television, couch and bar.
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Grotto Pierino is next to the San Gottardo church in the hills above Lugano, off the beaten path and therefore quite possibly unknown to celebrities.
Continuing up the valley you are treated to broad meadows, towering waterfalls, colourful villages (any one of which is worth stopping to explore and may prove irresistible to photographers) and occasional roadside grotto restaurants that open in the warm part of the year.
The closest spring to town is Ain al-Arais, a cool, inviting waterhole with a grotto-like bottom, just five minutes' walk from the central market.
In December 2013, Dutch wakeboarder and Red Bull-sponsored athlete Duncan Zuur had the rare opportunity to wakeboard through the warm waters of the stalactite- and stalagmite-filled Jeita Grotto.
"It's more of a gateway to cream cheese or peanut butter, " says David Grotto, a nutritionist and author of The Best Things You Can Eat.
That doesn't mar the view from Wohlford's home, which overlooks Thunderball Grotto, a snorkeler's paradise (see box).
He got up in the morning and he had his breakfast and he went outside and he's laying down in his air-conditioned grotto outside taking it very easy, completely unaware of the hard work that Mei Xiang has done all night.
Afterward in Ariel's Grotto, guests score one-on-one time with the redheaded mermaid herself as she poses for photos and signs autographs.
In November last year archaeologists located a grotto deep beneath Augustus's imperial palace that may have been the shrine where ancient Romans worshipped Romulus, the founder of the city according to legend.
The grounds feature a detached guesthouse with a recording studio, swimming pool with a water slide, grotto and barbecue area.
Now with Solovev, his shotgun slung over his charcoal black t-shirt, we left the heli-tour boardwalk, wandered the river's gravel shore and sat on brick-red rocks at a pulsing spring called Malachite Grotto.
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