What religious sites would you like to visit in the U.S.?

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If someone would give you X amount of dollars to take the summer off and visit religious sites around the U.S. where would you like to visit?

I would start on the West Coast and visit the new Christ Cathedral and visit some of the old missions (if there are any) started by Junipero Serra. Then I would travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico and see the cathedral and Basilica there along with a very old church near Taos.
Then I would head to the midwest and to St. Louis and see the very old Cathedral there. Then I would like to see St. Mary of the Snows and Notre Dame University and Steubenville. I would then travel to New York City to see St. Patrick’s Cathedral and then down to Washington D.C. to see the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. I might like to visit St. Augustine, Florida and see some history there and then to the EWTN studios in Alabama before heading back to the southwest.
What pilgrimmages in the U.S. would you like to take?
 
Notre Dame U, Christ Cathedral and the 21 CA missions. Cool!

I’d suggest you also add the San Antonio Missions (TX), Kateri Tekakwitha and the NA Martyrs (upper NY), and the Franciscan Basilica in Washington (Holy Land shrine).

Also Philadelphia and Saint John Neumann’s incorrupt body!

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7_Sorrows said:
If someone would give you X amount of dollars to take the summer off and visit religious sites around the U.S. where would you like to visit?

I would start on the West Coast and visit the new Christ Cathedral and visit some of the old missions (if there are any) started by Junipero Serra. Then I would travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico and see the cathedral and Basilica there along with a very old church near Taos.
Then I would head to the midwest and to St. Louis and see the very old Cathedral there. Then I would like to see St. Mary of the Snows and Notre Dame University and Steubenville. I would then travel to New York City to see St. Patrick’s Cathedral and then down to Washington D.C. to see the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. I might like to visit St. Augustine, Florida and see some history there and then to the EWTN studios in Alabama before heading back to the southwest.
What pilgrimmages in the U.S. would you like to take?
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I have seen all but Christ Cathedral and The Basilica, but one I would suggest be on people’s list is the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, Georgia. I visited it about a month ago and found it to be one of the most beautiful churches I’ve ever been in, with a parish history that goes back to the late 1700"s. Here is a link:

savannahcathedral.org
 
Forty miles east of Amarillo, TX just off IH40, exit 112 to see this

crossministries.net

Then visit the parish I was baptized at and light a candle for the priest who baptized me.
 
I haven’t been to all of them yet, but I want to go see the Missions in San Antonio, TX. It’s not too far for me so that’s a plus, I just need to take a day. Of course I’ve been to the Alamo, umteen million times and probably the San Jose mission but there’s a whole group I’m interested in seeing.
 
These all sound so lovely, that everyone has posted about so far. 🙂

We have a new one here in Wisconsin, in La Crosse, that is supposed to be really pretty, and is devoted to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Here is a link to the shrine, in case anyone wants to read about it:

guadalupeshrine.org/

We haven’t had a chance to go there yet ourselves, but we want to go and see it. It has been there for several years now. It closes rather early, and was closed already the last time that we were out that way.

We also have Holy Hill in Wisconsin, which is in Hubertus, Wisconsin. It is a National Shrine, also known as Holy Hill, National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians.

Here is a link for Holy Hill:

holyhill.com/

If anyone hasn’t been there and would like to go there, it is located outside of Milwaukee, WI, in case anyone plans on visiting the Milwaukee area at any time.

It is definitely worth a visit, and if you do come, plan to spend some time there. 🙂

Wear comfy walking shoes. It is very hilly, as it is atop the highest point in the southeastern part of the state.

They have outdoor stations of the cross that you can stop and pray at, and the church itself is beautiful, and so is the indoor Marian chapel.

Bring some containers with you, too, so that you can fill them with the water from the outdoor grotto.

They also have a really great gift shop with many items, too. 🙂
 
Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani - Kentucky

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception - Washington D.C.
 
i have been to the blue army shrine in washington, nj and would highly recommend it
 
CB_Catholic said:
I have seen all but Christ Cathedral and The Basilica, but one I would suggest be on people’s list is the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, Georgia. I visited it about a month ago and found it to be one of the most beautiful churches I’ve ever been in, with a parish history that goes back to the late 1700"s. Here is a link:

savannahcathedral.org
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That is beautiful!!! I wonder why the crucifix is not behind the altar, but off to the right unless they made a mistake labeling the floor plan.
 
This is fun. I like hearing what others recommend. Some I was not aware of. I would love to see those 21 missions in California.
 
We made a pilgrimage to EWTN in Irondale, Alabama and The Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama earlier this year. Highly recommended.

We would like to visit the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy and the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in DC.

And all of the others mentioned here too. Pilgrimages are very rewarding.
 
I’d like to just a do a photo book of the 100 most beautiful Catholic Churches in America. Visiting them all would be a labor of love. Sweetest Heart of Mary in Detroit and St Stanislaus in Cleveland would definitely make the list.
 
Seamus_L said:
I’d like to just a do a photo book of the 100 most beautiful Catholic Churches in America. Visiting them all would be a labor of love. Sweetest Heart of Mary in Detroit and St Stanislaus in Cleveland would definitely make the list.
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Good idea!
 
If you are ever in Oklahoma, there is the National Shrine of the Infant Jesus of Prague in Prague, Oklahoma in the central part of the state, located a short drive east of Oklahoma City. It is a small town where a lot of Czech immigrants settled several decades ago.

shrineofinfantjesus.com/
 
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