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Pilgrimage church

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.

The Calvary Church in Bonn with its holy stairway

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 edit

For non-Catholic pilgrimage churches, see List of Christian pilgrimage sites.

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

Austria edit

 
Andenken an Birkenstein postcard. University of Dayton Libraries.
 
Pilgrimage Church of Frauenberg in Ardning
 
Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary in Mariazell
 
Mariatrost Basilica in Graz

Brazil edit

Croatia edit

  • Trsat, Dalmatia, Croatia: Pilgrimage Shrine of Our Lady of Trsat, Cathedral of St Vitus

Czech Republic edit

France edit

 
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes

Germany edit

 
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Pilgrimage church of St. John the Baptist (Bussen)
 
The Apollinaris Church in Remagen
 
The Pilgrimage Church of Birnau by Lake Constance
 
Maria, Königin des Friedens, Neviges

Gibraltar edit

Great Britain edit

 
Palestinian Christian Scouts outside the Church of the Nativity, Palestine

Holy Land edit

Ireland edit

 
Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome

Italy edit

 
Our Lady of Lebanon

Lebanon edit

Latvia edit

Lithuania edit

Mexico edit

 
Guadalupe Basilica postcard. University of Dayton Libraries.

Netherlands edit

Philippines edit

Poland edit

 
Jasna Góra in Częstochowa
 
Divine Mercy Sanctuary (Kraków), also known as Łagiewniki

Portugal edit

Slovakia edit

Spain edit

Switzerland edit

Turkey edit

Syria edit

See also edit

 
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