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Shrine to North American Martyrs Is "Holiest Ground in America" [CN-USA]
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barb_finnegan
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This is an hour’s drive away from my house-I go there every chance I get!
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Rich_Olszewski
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When I was attending a Jesuit high school in the late 50s in NYC, our school, together with another, chartered a train every Fall to take us to Auriesville, where the Shrine is located. The Iroquois village was located, not in an out-of-way valley as the article claims, but on very high ground with a magnificent view of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys, a very beautiful site especially with the Autumn colors. The grounds had many reminders of how those Jesuit martyrs endured and died. Worth visiting if anyone is ever in the vicinity of Albany, NY.New York shrine is dedicated to three North American martyrs who serve as superb models of true sacrifice for the love of Jesus Christ and his Church.
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Dale_M
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I’ve never been there, but the map at the Shrine’s website shows it to be just off Interstate 90 (New York Thruway).he Iroquois village was located, not in an out-of-way valley as the article claims, but on very high ground with a magnificent view of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys, a very beautiful site especially with the Autumn colors. The grounds had many reminders of how those Jesuit martyrs endured and died. Worth visiting if anyone is ever in the vicinity of Albany, NY.
martyrshrine.org/pages/home.html
The “About US” page at the Shrine’s website mentions this:
martyrshrine.org/pages/about-us.htmlBy 1895 more property and a larger chapel were needed to accommodate thousands of pilgrims who arrived by boat, train and on foot. The addition included “the Ravine,” the holy place where a grieved Father Jogues interred the bones of René Goupil in an unmarked grave.
Perhaps that is what the author of the article in the first post meant. The Shrine’s website agrees with you that: “(e)ast of the Coliseum is a magnificent panoramic view of the Mohawk Valley and Adirondack Mountains.”
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st_julie
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I went to the Canadian one at Midland just last week…Amazing holy place.
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S_Carton
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I’ll definitely check it out the next time I’m in New York.
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