Has anyone had their prayers answered after visiting a shrine

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I was wondering if anyone would like to share how prayers were answered after visiting a shrine.

About 5 years ago, I went to a shrine in Belgium of Saint Dymphna. As much as I liked the Saint, it was also a convenient excuse to take a trip to Europe:D

When my dad died, I managed to be at peace in my heart over all the conflict that happened between us. I seriously think that was a result of Saint Dymphna interceding for me. And the reason I am positive is because that wasn’t exactly what I had prayed for. (To be honest, I don’t even remember what I prayed for when I was there). The reason I am sure it was intercession is because God answered my prayers by giving me what He felt I needed not what I asked for. And what he gave me in that instance was much better than I could have ever though of asking for.

The reason I am starting this thread is because I am planning on visiting a shrine fairly close to where I live in Canada. Or at least at lot closer than Belgium 😃

I just don’t want this to turn into something superstitious

Angie
 
There’s a shrine to St. Jude in New Orleans which holds four annual formal
novenas to the saint, as well as on-going novenas every day of the year.
I’ve had St. Jude answer my prayers.

Aaron Neville, of Neville Brothers fame, credits St. Jude with healing
his heroin addiction through his praying at the Shrine.

St. Jude is known as the “Saint of Impossible Causes.”
 
Certain things that I had been praying for, in some cases for years, were answered while I was in Lourdes earlier this year. The answers were yes, yes, no, not yet, no, and “I’ll get back to you on that.”

That said, I’ve had plenty of prayers answered before and after visiting the shrine (keeping in mind that “no” and “not yet” are answers), so I know that I don’t need to be on pilgrimage for God to respond to me. I imagine I received answers “in bulk” while in Lourdes because it was the right time for me to know the answers to those specific requests, and not because I had gone to Lourdes with the express purpose of finding them…indeed, I had not.

God bless 🙂
 
My particular prayer request was not granted when I visited a Catholic shrine. Even so, the experience of making the pilgrimage, participating in and experiencing the powerful faith of over a century of faith was life changing. I recommend it.
 
I’ve shared this before, but in 1993 my husband and I visited a shrine in northern New Mexico, the Santuario de Chimayo, on the feast of St. Anthony of Padua who is also a patron of barren women as well as lost items. We’d been trying for years to have a baby and my sister in law suggested making a pilgrimage to the shrine. That was on June 13, 1993.

March 15, 1994, our son was born. I didn’t get pregnant, but his birth mom did. We added the name Anthony to his legal name.
 
I got two things I prayed for at the Shrine of St. Declan in Ardmore, Ireland. One was a teaching job, and it was pretty miraculous because I got turned down for some AWFUL jobs, but then just a couple of days before the school year started, a job opened up at the best school I could have hoped for and I was offered the job! I’ve always thought that God was keeping that spot open just for me. I also prayed that I would meet my future husband and I did a few months later. We are expecting our first son in a couple months and we’ve decided to name him Declan.
 
bluerose said:
I’ve shared this before, but in 1993 my husband and I visited a shrine in northern New Mexico, the Santuario de Chimayo, on the feast of St. Anthony of Padua who is also a patron of barren women as well as lost items. We’d been trying for years to have a baby and my sister in law suggested making a pilgrimage to the shrine. That was on June 13, 1993.

March 15, 1994, our son was born. I didn’t get pregnant, but his birth mom did. We added the name Anthony to his legal name.
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That’s the shrine I went to as well, a very special place
 
Yes. Elizabeth Ann Seton Shrine in Emmittsburg, MD.

The prayer was personal, though, so no details.
 
At Lourdes, I got a lot more than what I bargained for. It was out of this world - how could I have possibly asked for such blessings. I was also guided to a confessional - I had never confessed in my life before. It was all beautiful.

I am currently reading some of the writings of Fray Luis of Granada, a Spanish mystic. He writes that when we ask the Virgin Mary she gives if it will not hinder our salvation and if so she gives us something else which is usually better. Seconded.
 
bluerose said:
I’ve shared this before, but in 1993 my husband and I visited a shrine in northern New Mexico, the Santuario de Chimayo, on the feast of St. Anthony of Padua who is also a patron of barren women as well as lost items. We’d been trying for years to have a baby and my sister in law suggested making a pilgrimage to the shrine. That was on June 13, 1993.

March 15, 1994, our son was born. I didn’t get pregnant, but his birth mom did. We added the name Anthony to his legal name.
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That is not far from where I live. I will put this on my list of places to vidit. thanks for sharing your beautiful story.
 
After visiting American Czestochowa, I indeed had two very difficult prayers answered and crosses made much lighter.

Even my son is transfixed when we attend Mass there. He often tells me his vocation grows deeper after confession and Holy Mass.
 
bluerose said:
I’ve shared this before, but in 1993 my husband and I visited a shrine in northern New Mexico, the Santuario de Chimayo, on the feast of St. Anthony of Padua who is also a patron of barren women as well as lost items. We’d been trying for years to have a baby and my sister in law suggested making a pilgrimage to the shrine. That was on June 13, 1993.

March 15, 1994, our son was born. I didn’t get pregnant, but his birth mom did. We added the name Anthony to his legal name.
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That is awesome. We also had fertility issues and prayed in a monestary in NYC to St. Anthony. Anthony is also my son’s middle name! And March 15 is my birthday!

Prayers work! God knows our heart.
 
Yes! I made a pilgrimage to St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal. I had been dealing with recovery from infidelity by my wife and developed a great devotion to St. Joseph. I felt compelled to go to the Oratory to continue to ask for his intercession as well as from St. Andre Bessette. Brother Andre built the Oratory to honor St.Joseph and attributed all of his miracles to the intercession of Joseph.

Anyhow, well documented elsewhere on these forums is the joyful beginnings to my wife and I’s reconciled marriage. We are doing great and are stronger, more committed and more loving than ever. Praise be to God and thanks to St. Joseph and St. Andre Bessette.

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