Christianity

Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Assumption in Chacas

Chacas, Ancash, Peru

In the high Andes of Ancash, at 3,359 meters, stands a sanctuary built upon layers of sacred time....

Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Conception of Vila Viçosa

Vila Viçosa, Évora, Portugal

Inside the castle walls of Vila Viçosa stands the parish church where, on March 25, 1646, King João IV placed his own royal crown on an image of Our Lady of the...

Sanctuary of Our Lady of the End of the Bridge – Refuge of the Mother and Child of Pau

Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

In Pau, this neo-Gothic church gathers a Béarnais Marian devotion documented since the sixteenth century — Our Lady at the end of the bridge, invoked for safe crossing and...

Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Guard, Genoa

Ceranesi, Ceranesi, Liguria, Italy

Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Guard, Genoa is a documented sanctuary in Ceranesi, Liguria, Italy, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Head

Andújar, Jaén, Spain

High in the Sierra de Andújar's granite hills, this basilica-shrine holds one of Spain's most venerated Black Madonnas, discovered by legend in 1227 by a healed shepherd....

Sanctuary of Our Lord of Huanca

Qosqo Ayllu, Cusco, Peru

In the 16th century, Diego Quispe—a slave fleeing punishment in the mines of Yasos—spent the night in prayer near Chinchero....

Sanctuary of Puig de Maria

Pollença, Balearic Islands, Spain

Reached only on foot, up a steep stone path above Pollença, this small Marian sanctuary was raised in 1348 as a town's collective plea against the Black Death....

Sanctuary of Saint Anthony at Laç

Laç, Laç, Kurbin Municipality, Lezhë County, Albania

Sanctuary of Saint Anthony at Laç is a documented sanctuary in Laç, Kurbin Municipality, Lezhë County, Albania, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Sanctuary of Saint Francis of Paola

Paola, Paola, Calabria, Italy

Sanctuary of Saint Francis of Paola is a documented sanctuary in Paola, Calabria, Italy, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Sanctuary of Saint Mary of Jerusalem at Trški Vrh

Trški Vrh, Trški Vrh, Krapina, Krapina-Zagorje County, Croatia

Sanctuary of Saint Mary of Jerusalem at Trški Vrh is a documented church in Trški Vrh, Croatia, held within Roman Catholic Christianity....

Sanctuary of Sant Honorat

Algaida, Balearic Islands, Spain

Sant Honorat is the lower and least-visited of the three historic sanctuaries on Mallorca's Puig de Randa, founded by hermits in the 1390s and still home today to a small...

Sanctuary of Sant Salvador

Felanitx, Balearic Islands, Spain

Above the town of Felanitx, on a 509-metre summit in Mallorca's Serra de Llevant, the Sanctuary of Sant Salvador has drawn pilgrims to its Marian image since a votive...

Sanctuary of Santa Luzia

Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Above Viana do Castelo, a Byzantine-domed basilica dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is known locally by another name entirely: Santa Luzia, patron of eyesight, whose...

Sanctuary of Santo Cristo do Senhor da Serra

Miranda do Corvo, Coimbra, Portugal

On a hill above the village of Semide, near Coimbra, a sanctuary holds an image of Santo Cristo credited since the 17th century with miraculous favors....

Sanctuary of São Bento da Porta Aberta

Terras de Bouro, Braga, Portugal

Above the Cávado river valley at the edge of Peneda-Gerês National Park, the Sanctuary of São Bento da Porta Aberta has kept its doors open, by tradition and by policy,...

Sanctuary of the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano

Lanciano, Lanciano, Abruzzo, Italy

Sanctuary of the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano is a documented sanctuary in Lanciano, Abruzzo, Italy, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Sanctuary of the Fuensanta

Murcia, Murcia, Spain

On a mountain spur above Murcia's fertile huerta, a Baroque sanctuary holds the city's patroness — a Marian image credited with ending a devastating drought in 1694....

Sanctuary of the Holy Child of Atocha in Plateros

Plateros, Zacatecas, Mexico

In the silver mines of colonial Zacatecas, an explosion trapped miners in darkness. As their wives prayed at the church of St....

Sanctuary of the Lord of Chalma

Chalma, Mexico, Mexico

In 1539, Augustinian friars found a shattered idol and a crucified Black Christ standing in its place....

Sanctuary of the Lord of Sacromonte

Amecameca, Mexico, Mexico

On the Sacred Hill of Amecameca, a cave once held an image of Tlaloc, rain god. The Dominicans replaced it in 1583 with a Black Christ made of cornstalk paste, lying in...

Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca

Bologna, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca is a documented sanctuary in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, connected with Roman Catholic Christianity....

Sanctuary of the Virgin of Candelaria in Tlacotalpan

Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, Mexico

In 1776, sailors brought a Catalan statue of the Virgin of Candelaria to Tlacotalpan, the island town on the Papaloapan River....

Sanctuary of Torreciudad

Secastilla, Huesca, Spain

Marian devotion at Torreciudad reaches back to an eleventh-century hermitage, its Romanesque carving traditionally enthroned in 1084....

Sanctuary of Vicoforte

Vicoforte, Cuneo, Italy

The corrected record treats Vicoforte as the physical sanctuary visitors enter. The devotional image remains part of the building's history without being confused with the...

Sankt Helene Spring and Grave Pilgrimage Landscape

Tisvildeleje, Tisvildeleje, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Sankt Helene Spring and Grave Pilgrimage Landscape is a documented sacred natural site in Tisvildeleje, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark, connected with Historical...

Sankt Mikkels Church, Slagelse

Slagelse, Slagelse, Region Zealand, Denmark

Sankt Mikkels Church, Slagelse is a documented church in Slagelse, Region Zealand, Denmark, connected with Christianity....

Sankt Olof Church, Österlen

Sankt Olof, Sankt Olof, Skåne County, Sweden

Sankt Olof Church, Österlen is a documented church in Sankt Olof, Skåne County, Sweden, connected with Lutheran Christianity....

Sant Pere de Rodes Monastery

El Port de la Selva, Girona, Spain

High on the Serra de Rodes above Catalonia's Cap de Creus, Sant Pere de Rodes stands as a roofless Benedictine ruin over Mediterranean cliffs....

Santa Casa di Loreto

Inside Santuario della Santa Casa di Loreto

Loreto, Ancona, Italy

At the center of Loreto's basilica, enclosed within Bramante's marble screen, stand three rough stone walls....

Santa Maria Assunta, Assergi

Assergi, L'Aquila, Italy

At the base of Gran Sasso, Assergi's parish church conceals a secret beneath its modest Romanesque facade....

Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey

Monistrol de Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain

Rising from the serrated peaks that give this mountain its name, Santa Maria de Montserrat has drawn pilgrims for over a thousand years....

Santa María la Real do Cebreiro

Pedrafita do Cebreiro, Lugo, Spain

Perched at 1,293 meters where the Camino Francés crosses from Castile-León into Galicia, this small pre-Romanesque church has sheltered pilgrims since the 9th century....

Santander Cathedral (Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción)

Santander, Santander, Cantabria, Spain

Google Places, Wikidata, the supplied encyclopedic record, and a rights-cleared exact-subject image converge on the same place....

Santes Creus Monastery

Aiguamúrcia, Tarragona, Spain

Founded in the mid-twelfth century as one of Catalonia's three great Cistercian houses, Santes Creus held the royal pantheon of the Crown of Aragon before its monks were...

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain

For more than a thousand years the granite squares of Santiago have been the final paving stones of a journey that begins in dozens of European countries....

Santo Domingo de la Calzada Cathedral

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja, Spain

Santo Domingo de la Calzada Cathedral holds the tomb of an eleventh-century hermit who made this stretch of the Camino Francés safe by building a causeway, a bridge, and a...

Santuari de la Mare de Déu de Canòlic

Bixessarri, Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra

In the summer of 1223, Saint Francis of Assisi retreated to a cave on the forested slopes of Monte Rainiero, five kilometers from Rieti, and spent forty days writing the...

Santuario della Santa Casa di Loreto

Loreto, Ancona, Italy

Three stone walls, tradition holds, once formed the house where the angel appeared to Mary in Nazareth....

Santuario di N.S. di Oropa, Italy

Biella, Biella, Italy

Oropa rises in the Biellese Alps at 1,159 meters, the largest Marian sanctuary in the Alpine world....

Santuario di Nostra Signora di Gonare

Orani, Nuoro, Italy

At 1,100 metres above sea level, the Santuario di Nostra Signora di Gonare is the highest church in Sardinia....

Santuario di San Pio da Pietrelcina

San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy

In the Gargano peninsula of Puglia, the Sanctuary of San Pio da Pietrelcina marks the place where Padre Pio — the Capuchin friar who bore the visible wounds of Christ's...

Santuario di Santa Rita, Cascia

Cascia, Perugia, Italy

The basilica houses the incorrupt body of Saint Rita of Cascia, an Augustinian nun canonized in 1900 and venerated across the Catholic world as patroness of impossible...

Santuário do Caraça

Catas Altas, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Perched at 1,300 metres in the Serra do Caraça, this 250-year-old Vincentian sanctuary holds Brazil's first neo-Gothic church, masterworks by the colonial painter Mestre...

Santuario francescano di Fontecolombo

Fontecolombo, Rieti, Italy

In the summer of 1223, Saint Francis of Assisi retreated to a cave on the forested slopes of Monte Rainiero, five kilometers from Rieti, and spent forty days writing the...

Santuario Lo Vasquez

Casablanca, Valparaíso, Chile

On December 8 each year, up to one million pilgrims converge on a roadside sanctuary between Santiago and Valparaíso, many walking or cycling through the night along...

Santuario Virgen de la Esperanza

Calasparra, Murcia, Spain

Six kilometers from Calasparra in Spain's Murcia region, a natural cave on the banks of the Segura River holds the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Hope....

Sapara Monastery

Akhaltsikhe, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia

Sapara Monastery is a documented monastery in Akhaltsikhe, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia, connected with Georgian Orthodox Christianity....

Sarajevo Old Orthodox Church

Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarajevo Old Orthodox Church is a documented church in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, held within Eastern Orthodox Christianity....