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.
A pilgrimagechurch (German: Wallfahrtskirche) is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way...
of Christian pilgrimage, sorted by region and by (modern) country. This page has a wider view of the topic, while the "pilgrimagechurch" page offers...
Pio da Pietrelcina), also called Shrine of Padre Pio or Padre Pio PilgrimageChurch, is a Catholic shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo, Province of Foggia...
perform. These pilgrimages were designed to be a counterpoint to the raucous behavior of Carnival. There are seven Holy Year churches in Rome (listed...
descriptions of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land date from the 4th century, when pilgrimage was encouraged by church fathers including Saint Jerome...
A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life. Pilgrimages...
The PilgrimageChurch of Wies (German: Wieskirche) is an oval Rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by brothers J. B. and Dominikus Zimmermann, the...
lit. 'Pilgrimage of Compostela'; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), or in English the Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading...
which caused the gradual development of this major place of pilgrimage. In 997 the early church was reduced to ashes by Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir (938–1002)...
commonly known as the Simala Shrine or the Simala Parish Church is a Roman Catholic pilgrimagechurch dedicated to the Virgin Mary in Sibonga, Cebu, Philippines...
The PilgrimageChurch of Saint John of Nepomuk (Czech: Poutní kostel svatého Jana Nepomuckého) at Zelená hora (meaning "Green Hill", German: Grünberg)...
The Malayattoor pilgrimage is an annual pilgrimage near the end of Lent to a hilltop Syro-Malabar Catholic church in Malayattoor in the South Indian state...
holiest site for Christians in the world and has been the most important pilgrimage site for Christians since the fourth century. According to traditions...
Churches can be measured and compared in several different ways. These include area, volume, length, width, height, or capacity. Several churches individually...
Some Catholic basilicas are Catholic pilgrimage sites, receiving tens of millions of visitors per year. Churches designated as papal basilicas, in particular...
Walsingham in the English county of Norfolk. The first pilgrimage took place in 1923 in the parish church of St Mary and All Saints, Little Walsingham. The...
The Pilgrimage of Grace was a popular revolt beginning in Yorkshire in October 1536, before spreading to other parts of Northern England including Cumberland...
The Chartres pilgrimage (French: pèlerinage de Chartres), also known in French as the pèlerinage de Chrétienté (English: pilgrimage of Christendom), is...
the church. The interior of this church illustrates the summit of Rococo decoration. Another notable example of the style is the PilgrimageChurch of Wies...
28 July 1916 until his death on 23 September 1968. The Padre Pio PilgrimageChurch was built in devotion to the saint and dedicated on 1 July 2004. The...
of his life, is the main pilgrimage site dedicated to his memory. The Santa Maria delle Grazie Church, which is the church of the capuchin monastery...
Gothic style. The most important example is Jan Santini Aichel, whose PilgrimageChurch of Saint John of Nepomuk in Žďár nad Sázavou, Czech Republic, represents...
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