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CatholicSam
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Yes, this Basillica is amazing! I was blessed to be able to go to midnight Mass for Christmas a few years ago! :heaven: What an EXPERIENCE!!!
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I missed this one under my nose. The Sisters of St Francis Motherhouse in Rochester, Minnesota up on the hill overlooking the city. It is still an amazing and holy place to see and experience.
rochesterfranciscan.org/Pages/Tour/general_tour.htm
rochesterfranciscan.org/Pages/Tour/general_tour.htm
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duskyjewel
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I’d like to go see the shrine to Nuestra Senora de La Leche y Buen Parto (Our Lady of the Milk and Happy Delivery) in St. Augustine, Florida.
Partly because La Leche League is named after it, and partly because I have spent so much of my life being pregnant and nursing babies.
Partly because La Leche League is named after it, and partly because I have spent so much of my life being pregnant and nursing babies.
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Lucania
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The Mission of Nombre De Dios & The Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche is indeed a beautiful place. Here is their website: www.missionandshrine.org . I am fortunate to live 30 minutes or so away from St. Augustine where the shrine is and try to go once a month. The grounds are peaceful & beautiful. There is a nice gift shop there as well. I would recommend a visit to The Shrine and the town of St. Augustine, our nation’s oldest city and site of the first Catholic Mass in the Country.
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Carden
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I will second that! I grew up about 20 miles away and visited there every chance I could and this was before I converted.
It’s gorgeous! And the church next door is spectacular too!
There’s even a hotel up the street from it too.
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spacecadet
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ditto ditto ditto; used to go there a lot when i lived in FL and yes ST. Augustine is the nation’s oldest city not JamestownThe Mission of Nombre De Dios & The Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche is indeed a beautiful place. Here is their website: www.missionandshrine.org . I am fortunate to live 30 minutes or so away from St. Augustine where the shrine is and try to go once a month. The grounds are peaceful & beautiful. There is a nice gift shop there as well. I would recommend a visit to The Shrine and the town of St. Augustine, our nation’s oldest city and site of the first Catholic Mass in the Country.
if you are in FL swing down to orlando for the Shrine of the Queen of the Universe that was mentioned above
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whatevergirl
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I believe that there is a church in Pittsburgh–Southside–where the bones of some martyrs, and Apostles are kept there. Ugh, I can’t remember the name of it, but it’s visited by many during Lent.
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Lucania
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Yes, Whatevergirl! It is St. Anthony’s Chapel in the Troy Hill section of Pittsburgh. DH & I have been there twice when we visited Pittsburgh for Steeler games. It’s a wonderful place containing over 4,200 relics! There are beautiful life-size Stations of the Cross in the Chapel, too. Also a nice gift shop across the street where I bought a Holy Water Font for my home. If anyone is in the Pittsburgh area or is planning a visit, I suggest you take the time to see this treasure.
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KCT
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Come to Baltimore! We have a cathedral, a basilica and LOTS of beautiful, ethnic churches. From Baltimore, you can take a day trip to DC to see the national cathedral and the churches there. —KCT
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samovila
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I’m surprised no one yet mentioned our National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in Emmittsburg, MD. I took some visiting family there in May and it was just LOVELY!
Here’s the website.
msmary.edu/grotto/
Here’s the website.
msmary.edu/grotto/
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RascalJones
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Been there several times. About once a year growing up and attending Catholic school for 8 years, it was a frequent “field trip”. One time our priest got a speeding ticket in a small town on the way.
There used to be, and perhaps still is, a chalice engraved “In memory of” with my grandfather’s name on it. He used to go there almost every weekend in the summer.
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whatevergirl
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ok–that’s it! Thank you for your post!Yes, Whatevergirl! It is St. Anthony’s Chapel in the Troy Hill section of Pittsburgh. DH & I have been there twice when we visited Pittsburgh for Steeler games. It’s a wonderful place containing over 4,200 relics! There are beautiful life-size Stations of the Cross in the Chapel, too. Also a nice gift shop across the street where I bought a Holy Water Font for my home. If anyone is in the Pittsburgh area or is planning a visit, I suggest you take the time to see this treasure.
:crying: I never got to go there–and now we’re in Florida…oh well…when we visit.
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KCT
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A trip to Baltimore could easily include a day trip to Emmitsburg to see Mother Seton’s shrine! —KCT
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k5thbeatle
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Yes! I have been to Montreal and have visited these!!!Not sure where you live, but Montréal isn’t far from the NY border. St. Joseph’s Oratory is the largest Catholic church in North America as far as I know. It is magnificent and Montréal itself is a great city to visit. It’s sort of like Europe
There is also a Notre Dame Cathedral there ( where Celine Dion got married, stop rolling your eyes!)
There is also a church and some history about a female Saint in the Old Montreal port… I can’t remember her name. Ste. Marguerite de Bourgeois I think…
Check out Montréal!
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Marysann
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Anyone who is visiting Niagara Falls should not miss seeing Our Lady of Victory Basilica in the Buffalo, NY suburb of Lackawanna. It was built by the Servant of God Father Nelson Baker, a Buffalo businessman and Civil War veteran who became a priest. Father Baker spent most of his life, before and after becoming a priest, in service to the poor. He dedicted his institutions, which included orphanages for children, a home for older boys where they were taught trades (some even went on the priesthood themselves), an infant home, and home for unwed mothers, and a community hospital to Our Lady of Victory whose shrine he had visited in Paris. Some of these institutions still exist in more modern forms. In the 1920’s, when Father Baker was very elderly, he decided to thank Our Blessed Mother for her help to him over the years by building a spectacular church in her honor. He had no money for this project, but when the church was finished in 1925 it was completely paid for by donations from Catholics from all over the country. In 1926 the Holy Father named Our Lady of Victory a minor basilica. It is an absolutely gorgeous church, and the tomb of Father Baker is inside. He is on the road to being canonized. Beside Our Lady of Victory, there are many other beautiful churches in Buffalo, attesting to the faith of our immigrant ancestors.
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thann
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It’s not as ostentatious as a cathedral or basilica, but a great Catholic place nonetheless: Cross in the Woods Catholic Shrine in Indian River, Michigan. Seeing the enormous crucifix, made by artist Marshall Fredericks, in the lovely woodland setting is pretty amazing.
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BloodStaindRose
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Hanceville, AL!
I just went there to visit the monastery to determine if I had a calling or not…very beautiful…AMAZING!!!
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I just went there to visit the monastery to determine if I had a calling or not…very beautiful…AMAZING!!!
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dalesmom
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if you go to Hanceville, don’t miss Ava Maria Grotto right down the road! Awesome place! Must see! 
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annb
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If you came to St. Louis to see the Cathedral Basilica you could also go to the Black Madonna Shrine & Grottos.
franciscancaring.org/blackmadonnaforward.html
There are a total of 11 sites of interest listed on the archdiocese website.
archstl.org/about/sites.htm
Wow, I had no idea, but we also have St. Rose Philippine Duchesne here.
franciscancaring.org/blackmadonnaforward.html
There are a total of 11 sites of interest listed on the archdiocese website.
archstl.org/about/sites.htm
Wow, I had no idea, but we also have St. Rose Philippine Duchesne here.
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