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Peñafrancia Basilica
Naga City, Camarines Sur, Philippines
Rising in Naga City at the heart of the Bicol region, Peñafrancia Basilica enshrines the miraculous image of Our Lady of Peñafrancia, lovingly called Ina (Mother) by...
Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Naples, Campania, Italy
Rising above the ancient Piazza del Mercato, the Basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine Maggiore holds the Madonna Bruna, an icon traditionally attributed to Saint Luke that...
Basilica of the Virgin of Luján, Luján
Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rising from the pampas sixty-eight kilometers from Buenos Aires, the Basilica of Our Lady of Lujan marks the spot where, according to Catholic tradition, the Virgin Mary...
Basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Marian Hill in Levoča, Slovakia
Levoča, Prešov Region, Slovakia
Each July, over half a million pilgrims climb Marianska Hora to the Basilica of the Visitation outside Levoca, Slovakia....
Basilica of Our Lady of Marceille
Limoux, Occitanie, France
On a hilltop outside Limoux, a Gothic basilica guards one of France's most poignant Black Madonnas....
Basilica Maria Loreto, St. Andra
St. Andrä im Lavanttal, Carinthia, Austria
Rising from the Lavanttal valley in southeastern Austria, the Basilica Maria Loreto holds a replica of the Holy House of Nazareth and its Black Madonna....
Basilica of Maria Loretto in Burgenland
Loretto, Burgenland, Austria
In the eastern Austrian lowlands, a village of five hundred souls receives one hundred thousand pilgrims annually....
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site rises at Tepeyac Hill in Mexico City, where the Virgin Mary appeared to an Aztec peasant in 1531....
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
In downtown Baltimore stands the Mother Church of Roman Catholicism in the United States, the first cathedral built in the new nation after its founding....
Basilica of Saints Nazarius and Celsus
Carcassonne, Occitania, France
Within the fortified citadel of Carcassonne stands a basilica blessed by a pope who preached the Crusades....
Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle, San Juan, Texas
San Juan, Texas, United States
In the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, over one million pilgrims journey each year to venerate a small statue of the Virgin Mary that survived a devastating 1970 plane...
Basilica of the Virgin Mary, Mariazell
Mariazell, Steiermark, Austria
Set among the forested peaks of the Styrian Alps, the Basilica of the Virgin Mary in Mariazell has drawn pilgrims from across Central Europe for nearly nine hundred years....
Basilica of St. Nicholas, Bari, Italy
Bari, Apulia, Italy
In Bari's old town, a white limestone basilica holds the relics of the saint who became Santa Claus....
Basilica of Virgin of Itatí, Corientes, Argentina
Municipio de Itatí, Corrientes, Argentina
In 1888, two shepherdesses on the slopes of Monte Patalecchia reported seeing the Madonna Addolorata — the Mother of Sorrows — holding the body of Christ....
Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Santa Maria Maggiore stands as the largest and oldest Marian sanctuary in the Western world....
Basilica of Our Lady of Ocotlan
Otatitlán, Veracruz, Mexico
In 1541, as smallpox killed ninety percent of Tlaxcala's population, a young indigenous convert named Juan Diego Bernardino encountered the Virgin in a pine grove....
Basilica of St. Mary of Minerva, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Santa Maria sopra Minerva rises above ancient temple foundations, one block from the Pantheon....
Basilica of Our Lady of Remedies, Naucalpan de Juarez
Naucalpan de Juárez, State of Mexico, Mexico
On the night of La Noche Triste in 1520, when Cortes's forces fled Tenochtitlan in defeat, a soldier named Villafuerte concealed a 27-centimeter Virgin among the magueys...
Church of the Holy Trinity Saccargia (Basilica della Santissima Trinita de Saccargia)
Codronzanu/Codrongianos, Sardinia, Italy
The Basilica della Santissima Trinità di Saccargia rises from the pastoral Sardinian countryside in dramatic stripes of black basalt and white limestone....
Basilica of the Virgin of Copacabana, Copacabana
Provincia Manco Kapac, La Paz, Bolivia
On the shore of Lake Titicaca at nearly four thousand meters, the Basilica of the Virgin of Copacabana holds Bolivia's most revered sacred image: a dark-skinned Virgin...
Aparecida, Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida
Aparecida, São Paulo, Brazil
The largest Marian shrine in the world rises above the Paraíba Valley in southeastern Brazil, housing a small dark statue of the Virgin Mary found in a river three...
Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, Bad Staffelstein, Germany
Bad Staffelstein, Bavaria, Germany
The Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers stands on a hill above the Main valley in Upper Franconia, on the site where a fifteenth-century shepherd reported visions of the...
Basilica of St. Sebastian Outside the Walls, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
San Sebastiano fuori le Mura stands on the ancient Appian Way, above the catacombs that gave all Christian underground cemeteries their name....
Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
On the site where legend says oil sprang from the earth foretelling the Messiah's birth, Santa Maria in Trastevere rises as possibly Rome's oldest church dedicated to the...
Basilica di Sant’ Agostino, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Sant'Agostino holds the relics of Saint Monica, whose persistent prayers over decades brought her wayward son Augustine to faith....
Our Lady of Deliverance
Douvres-la-Délivrande, Normandy, France
Notre-Dame de la Délivrande—the Black Madonna of Délivrande—specializes in liberation....
Basilica of the Virgin Mary, Kevelaer, Germany
Kevelaer, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Kevelaer is the largest Catholic pilgrimage destination in north-western Europe, built around a small printed image of Mary as Consoler of the Afflicted....
Basilica Santuario Nostra Signora di Bonaria
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
On a hill overlooking Cagliari and the Mediterranean, a statue of the Virgin arrived by sea during a storm in 1370—the candle in her hand still burning when the crate was...
Basilica of St. Lawrence Outside the Walls, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
San Lorenzo fuori le Mura marks the tomb of Saint Lawrence, the deacon who named the poor as the Church's true treasure and faced death with legendary courage....
Basilica di San Clemente, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Basilica di San Clemente descends through time itself. Beneath a luminous twelfth-century church lies a fourth-century basilica, and deeper still, a Roman Mithraeum where...
Basilica of Saint Martin
Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
In the heart of Tours, pilgrims have journeyed for over sixteen centuries to honor Saint Martin, the Roman soldier who shared his cloak with a freezing beggar and later...
Basilica of the Virgin Mary, Matraverebely Szentkut, Hungary
Mátraverebély, North Hungary, Hungary
Szentkút — 'Holy Well' — is Hungary's foremost national Marian shrine, set in a wooded valley between the Cserhát and Mátra hills....
Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan, Guadalajara
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
On October 12, more than three million people accompany a 34-centimeter corn paste statue through the streets of Guadalajara....
Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme does not merely honor the Holy Cross—it claims to stand on Jerusalem itself....
Basilica of Nuestra Señora de la Salud, Patzcuaro
Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Don Vasco de Quiroga dreamed of utopia in the New World. In 1540, on a hill where Purepecha priests had performed ceremonies, he began building what would become...
Mariapocs, Basilica of our Lady of Mariapocs
Máriapócs, North Great Plain, Hungary
In a small town on the Great Plain stands the Greek Catholic basilica of Máriapócs, dedicated to St Michael the Archangel and famed for an icon of the Mother of God that...
Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Beneath the high altar of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere lies the saint for whom musicians pray....
Basilica of Notre-Dame-du-Cap, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
On the banks of the St. Lawrence River, in Quebec's Trois-Rivieres, a tiny stone chapel from 1714 and a monumental octagonal basilica from 1964 stand side by side....
Basilica of Our Lady of Deliverance, Douvries-la-Delivrande
Douvres-la-Délivrande, Normandy, France
For over two thousand years, this ground has been sacred—first to a Celtic mother goddess, then to the Virgin Mary....
Basilica Parrocchiale di Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Santa Maria del Popolo rises where legend says Pope Paschal II exorcised the demons haunting Nero's grave....
Basilica of the Royal Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Candelaria, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
On Tenerife's Atlantic coast, the Basilica of Our Lady of Candelaria holds the patroness of the Canary Islands in a sanctuary built above the cave where the Guanche people...
Basilica of Esztergom, Hungary
Esztergom, Central Transdanubia, Hungary
Atop Castle Hill above the Danube stands Hungary's largest church, the Primatial Basilica of Esztergom....
Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Zaragoza)
Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
Catholic tradition places the Virgin Mary's first apparition on 2 January AD 40 — while she was still living in Jerusalem — to the apostle James the Greater on the banks...
Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Daurade
Toulouse, Occitanie, France
Before it was a church, this site held a temple to Apollo. The golden mosaics that covered its early Christian walls gave it the name Daurade—from the Latin for 'gilded.'...
Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours
Tours, Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
A Neo-Byzantine basilica raised over the crypt of Saint Martin of Tours, whose act of cutting his cloak in half for a freezing beggar became the founding image of Western...
Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar
Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
A soaring Catalan Gothic basilica in Barcelona's Born district, built between 1329 and 1384 not by nobility but by the sailors, fishermen, and bastaixos dockworkers of the...
Sanctuaire Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Quebec, Canada
The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré stands on the Côte-de-Beaupré, about thirty-five kilometres north-east of Quebec City....
Đền Đức Mẹ La Vang
Hải Lăng, Hải Lăng, Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam
Đền Đức Mẹ La Vang is the spiritual heart of Vietnamese Catholicism. Oral tradition holds that in 1798, during the Tây Sơn dynasty's persecution of Catholics, Mary...
Wanjin Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
Wanjin, Pingtung County, Wanjin, Pingtung County, Taiwan
In a rural stretch of southern Taiwan more commonly associated with Taoist temples and Buddhist shrines, twin Spanish-Gothic bell towers rise above rice paddies....
Basilica of Santa María, Elche
Elche, Elche/Elx, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
The Basilica of Santa María in Elche, southeastern Spain, is the home of the Misteri d'Elx — a fully sung medieval liturgical drama on the Assumption of the Virgin,...
Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal
Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Saint Joseph's Oratory rises in three vast tiers above Mount Royal, but its heart is the small votive chapel where thousands of crutches, canes, and braces line the walls....
Basilica of San Vicente, Ávila
Ávila, Ávila, Castile and León, Spain
Just outside Ávila's medieval walls, the Basilica of San Vicente rises over the traditional site where three sibling martyrs, Vicente, Sabina, and Cristeta, were killed...
Royal Basilica of San Francisco el Grande
Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Inaugurated in 1784 by Charles III, the Royal Basilica of San Francisco el Grande pairs an active Franciscan parish with a dome built explicitly to rival the Pantheon and...
Basilica di San Giulio
Orta San Giulio, Piedmont, Italy
On a small island in the center of Lake Orta, a Romanesque basilica holds the relics of the 4th-century Greek evangelist who founded it after — according to legend —...
Basilica of Begoña
Bilbao, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain
On a hill above Bilbao's Old Town, the Basilica of Begoña has been the spiritual home of the Basque people since the medieval era....
Basilica di San Benedetto, Norcia
Norcia, Norcia, Umbria, Italy
Beneath this basilica's rebuilt nave lies the crypt tradition identifies as the birthplace of Saint Benedict of Nursia and his twin sister Scholastica, the symbolic origin...
Basilica santuario di Maria Santissima Addolorata
Castelpetroso, Molise, Italy
In 1888, two shepherdesses on the slopes of Monte Patalecchia reported seeing the Madonna Addolorata — the Mother of Sorrows — holding the body of Christ....
Basilica of Saint Teresa, Alba de Tormes
Alba de Tormes, Alba de Tormes, Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain
In the center of Alba de Tormes, two adjoining buildings tell one story split across three centuries....
Sagrada Família
Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
The Sagrada Família began in 1882 as an expiatory temple, funded entirely by donation, dedicated to the Holy Family....
Basilica of San Isidoro
León, León, Castile and León, Spain
On the edge of León's old town, this Romanesque church holds the relics of Saint Isidore of Seville alongside the tombs of eleven kings and twelve queens of León....
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