Category

Marian Shrines

Places of apparition, devotion and healing.

3 destinations

2/5 Significance

Lourdes, France

Sanctuary of Lourdes

A grotto in the Pyrenees where a fourteen-year-old saw eighteen apparitions in 1858 — and where six million pilgrims come each year.

2/5 · Historically linked

2/5 Significance

Mexico City, Mexico

Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe

The most visited Catholic shrine on earth, built around a cloak that has hung on display since 1531.

2/5 · Historically linked

2/5 Significance

Fátima, Portugal

Sanctuary of Fátima

Three shepherd children, six apparitions in 1917, and the Miracle of the Sun witnessed by a crowd of seventy thousand.

2/5 · Historically linked