 The statue survived both revolutions and was granted the honour of a coronation, by a brief of Pope Pius IX, on 15 July 1870.Devotion to Our Lady of Arcachon spread far and wide, and the shrine became a centre of pilgrimage.Before 1842 the church had been surrounded only by a few fishermen's huts, but with the erection of villas and the discovery of the salubrious climate of the area people began to flock to the spot, which is now the centre of a flourishing town.