Pilgrimage church explained

A pilgrimage church (German: Wallfahrtskirche) is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way of St. James, that is visited by pilgrims.

Pilgrimage churches are often located by the graves of saints, or hold portraits to which miraculous properties are ascribed or saintly relics that are safeguarded by the church for their veneration. Such relics may include the bones, books or pieces of clothing of the saints, occasionally also fragments of the cross of Jesus, pieces of the crown of thorns, the nails with which he was fixed to the cross and other similar objects. Pilgrimage churches were also built at places where miracles took place.

List of Roman Catholic pilgrimage churches

Churches are listed in alphabetical order of the sites in or near where they are located.

Austria

Brazil

Croatia

Czech Republic

France

Germany

Gibraltar

Great Britain

Anglican and Roman Catholic shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

Holy Land

Church of the Nativity

Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Church of the Primacy of Saint Peter (also known as the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes)

Stella Maris Monastery (also known as the Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel)

Ireland

Marian pilgrimage chapel of Our Lady Queen of Ireland

Italy

Lebanon

Latvia

Lithuania

Mexico

Netherlands

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Slovakia

Spain

Switzerland

Turkey

Syria

See also

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