St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, St. Charles. MO. She arrived in 1818, started schools for girls, and hoped to evangelize the Indians. Thank you Father Gregory.
Thanks for highlighting Philadelphia shrines! St. John Neumann shrine,St. Katharine Drexel shrine, and the Miraculous Medal shrine are some of my favorites!
The San Antonio Missions in Texas are well worth one's time if in the area. After visiting the Alamo, the four missions became an afternoon religious retreat. Also, for anyone traveling in the U.S., check cities for Cathedrals and Basilicas. You will be inspired by what you find.
Thanks for this video! As a Catholic who has been blest to take pilgrimages, I can attest to the power and grace attributed to pilgrimage. For that reason, I can’t encourage pilgrimage enough. Yes, there can be significant costs, but you can do things on a budget if you’re willing to make the sacrifices to save up for a trip (like working extra hours, which I did) and staying at affordable places like convents who take pilgrims. For instance, my husband and I went to Rome and Assisi this past February. We found flights for $800 a person round trip and stayed at a convent, and overall our trip grand total (including flights, food, train/bus tickets, tickets to museums, EVERYTHING) was less than $5000 for a 10 night stay. It took a lot of planning and extra hours working, but the graces that followed were absolutely worth it! Since we are physical beings, being physically in the places were saints have walked the earth and so much Church history has happened is deeply moving. I could feel the presence of the saints whose tombs were visited. And the beauty alone of the churches - we just don’t have that in the US, and that beauty certainly aids in encountering the Lord. Praying that anyone who feels called to pilgrimage will find the resources they need to make it a reality.
I really was very much moved by my pilgrimages to Patmos and the Cave of the Apocalypse and then to both Ephesus to see exactly where John preached and then to the house of the Virgin Mary shrine located on Mt. Koressos. Pope Saint Pius X granted plenary indulgences for pilgrims to the blessed mothers home starting in 1951.
@@jacobortega3424 Not exactly, According to the National Catholic Register, "Sister Marie’s discovery remains special to the faithful. Pope Leo XIII encouraged visits to the site, declaring it a place of pilgrimage. On Aug. 18, 1961, Pope St. John XXIII granted plenary indulgences upon Mary’s house for all time. Today, the house is one of the holiest shrines in all of Christendom. Popes Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict each made special trips there to worship, and more than 1 million people visit every year. For Christians and many others around the world, it is an important house to visit." The Roman Catholic Church has never pronounced on the authenticity of the house, for lack of scientifically acceptable evidence. It has, however, from the blessing of the first pilgrimage by Pope Leo XIII in 1896, taken a positive attitude towards the site. Pope Pius XII, in 1951, following the definition of the dogma of the Assumption in 1950, elevated the house to the status of a Holy Place, a privilege later made permanent by Pope John XXIII.
In Pompei, Italy the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary where the painting of "Our Lady of the Rosary" restored by Bartolo Longo depicting the Virgin Mary and Child Jesus presenting rosaries to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena. Two great Dominicans.
Hey Padre. For context, I am a really good friend of Fr. Peter Fagan, OP We went to University of Dallas together. While I was at UD, we had a semester in Rome. I had lapsed from the Faith but going to Assisi on Good Friday 1986 kind of kickstarted my return to the faith. Attending Easter mass with Pope, St. JP2 looking down from the right colonnade onto St. Peter Square didn't hurt either
Oklahoman here. Love the Blessed Stanley Shrine in Oklahoma City. Such a great witness in the city. I drive by it pretty much every Sunday on my way down to College. Definitely should stop by if you ever have the chance
Don't forget Lima, Peru - a beautiful old city, with great food, and the childhood homes and tombs of St. Rose of Lima and St. Martin of Porres. They are sites frequented by pilgrims, and set up for public access and could be visited by foreigners who fly in to Lima on their own. In Colombia is also Our Lady of Las Lajas, which is spectacular and miraculous, though a bit of a long drive/bus ride. Go with a tour group. Quito, Ecuador is also an amazing old historic city with a very walkable old downtown and nice hotels, and has the shrine of Our Lady of Good Success, which is locally popular and also draws foreigners on the days when the miraculous image is displayed in the church. Quito is also quite accessible for independent tourist visits.
I have encountered a few Philly fans. What a blessing, Father Pine is an exception to the rule! Haha! My family made a pilgrimage to see the incorrupt body of Sister Wilhelmina in Gower, Missouri. Traveling down, I was curious if Sister Wilhelmina’s incorrupt body was still part of the Church militant, still suffering alongside the other pilgrims. I found sister Wilhelmina to look quite peaceful and a sense of peace. It seems rather that incorruptibles are signs of hope for us and not really still part of the Church militant. Fortunately, the sisters had structured prayer at 3pm and we were able to participate. We were shocked and affirmed that so many young women filled the chapel. It seems obvious that Sister Wilhelmina has inspired so many to pick up their cross with joy.
If any of you ever end up in the south of Spain, go to El Rocío. It’s a beautiful pilgrimage place with amazing and very devoted people, traditions and also a beautiful nature. Generally speaking the south of Spain is a great place to be for the important days of the year. Again, lots of processions and very devoted people. God bless all of you.
And don't forget the Shrine of St Jude in Chicago. Dominican shrine and it has a relic of St Jude.
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Catholic shrines are definitely inspirational my wife and I visited this summer a trifecta of Catholic shrines at Known as the “Lily of the Mohawks”, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha 2012 made a saint; in Auriesville, New York born to a Catholic Algonquin mother and a Mohawk Chief. Pilgrims throughout the world travel to Upstate New York to tour Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine. In 1646, Saint Jogues Isaac was martyred by the Mohawk at their village of Auresville NY, near the Mohawk River. Then to Divine Mercy Shrine in Stockbridge MA. Of course stocked up on holy water and many gifts from the gift shops Thank you Lord. My wife is a catholic school teacher so she was able to purchase a beautiful wood plaque with the Beatitudes for her classroom.
Medjugorje - ❤. I wish I could go there again. These are the last Apparitions of Our Lady. But otherwise, as you say Father, go local where you live! I love Midland, Ontario, the Canadian Martyrs Shrine!
Our Lady of Walsingham shrine is so underrated! I loved making it out there for the abbey ruins, shops nearby, and the slipper chapel. It’s far less commercial from the other pilgrimage sites which is great.
2 minutes ago If anyone is in the Boston area, but wants a taste of Belgium/France/Canada, visit the Shrine of St. Joseph the Worker in Lowell, MA. Saint Eugene de Mazenod, OMI, inspired Fr. André Garin (same order) to travel from Canada to “Little Quebec” in Lowell to serve the population there during the Industrial Revolution. There are strong, direct ties in that part of the community to the apparitions in Beauraing, really cool stuff. The Pro-Maria Commitee is dedicated to preservation work regarding the apparitions.
I believe it's St John the Evangelist who appeared with Our Lady of Knock. That's my family's Parish for several generations. Someday I hope to get there.
Speaking of the California missions, Saint Junipero Serra is buried at Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. My wife and I have been a few times to visit. I typed this comment before completing the video so don't roast me if Father Gregory mentions this later on.
You’ve got to visit some German sites. You forgot to mention the bones of St Albertus Magnus in the crypt of St Anthony (just opposite the cologne cathedral). And if you go to the Netherlands why not hop over the border to Kevelaer and visit the consolatrix afflictorum? Also the Basilika St Mary of Kevelaer is the most beautiful church on the inside I’ve ever seen, everything is painted, it’s almost Byzantine…
Hello Everyone, I would love to recommend Québec City, Canada which is VERY rich with catholic history and often forgotten. We have a holy door that is open for 2 years for the 350th of the Diocèse of Québec!
The best pilgrimage does not entailing a passport. Does not produce a lot of CO2. Does not cost a lot to go to. In every Mass/Divine Worship, we are there in the Upper Room on Holy Thursday. At Calvary on Calvary on Good Friday. Maybe if we live that, and take the treasure spent on the pilgrimage for true Works of Charity and Mercy, we would be better Catholics. And might just convert some one by our example.
@@DominicMazoch yes totally right, you should tell that to that lady who poured the perfume on Christ. And that wasn’t even something that would be an explicit event to aid in spiritual development, unlike a pilgrimage which is very helpful to revitalize our understanding of the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist and Calvary at the Mass.
@@bcd385you’ve read the churches teachings on climate change and how it acknowledges it to be a fact right? And how all serious meteorological experts and governments back up that position? You’d have to mistrust basically all legitimate authority, human and divine to resist the idea at this stage
@@minui8758 "Serious" experts also put us in lockdowns and told us to get the jab and the Pope said to do the "act of love"... Which now is coming more and more to the light that they lied, A LOT (not the Pope, the "experts", seems like the Pope just had really bad advisors). So no, I didn't read the Churches teaching on it nor I plan to. Yes, we should ABSOLUTELY take care of our planet, but it is not the Church's task to deal with "climate change", it is to SAVE SOULS. And doesn't hurt to open our eyes and see the evil agendas of "experts" and governments as well. Because, no, they're not conspiracy theories, only time shows that they are in fact true. Don't want to argue now over YT comments and that's all I going to say. God bless you.
I frequently go to St. John Neumann Shrine, you can definitely bring your toddler there. There's a museum that's kid friendly, and he's in the lower church.
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, St. Charles. MO. She arrived in 1818, started schools for girls, and hoped to evangelize the Indians. Thank you Father Gregory.
Thanks for highlighting Philadelphia shrines! St. John Neumann shrine,St. Katharine Drexel shrine, and the Miraculous Medal shrine are some of my favorites!
The San Antonio Missions in Texas are well worth one's time if in the area. After visiting the Alamo, the four missions became an afternoon religious retreat. Also, for anyone traveling in the U.S., check cities for Cathedrals and Basilicas. You will be inspired by what you find.
@@user-dr7md1fm3x yes the missions were nice to visit!
Thanks for this video! As a Catholic who has been blest to take pilgrimages, I can attest to the power and grace attributed to pilgrimage. For that reason, I can’t encourage pilgrimage enough.
Yes, there can be significant costs, but you can do things on a budget if you’re willing to make the sacrifices to save up for a trip (like working extra hours, which I did) and staying at affordable places like convents who take pilgrims. For instance, my husband and I went to Rome and Assisi this past February. We found flights for $800 a person round trip and stayed at a convent, and overall our trip grand total (including flights, food, train/bus tickets, tickets to museums, EVERYTHING) was less than $5000 for a 10 night stay. It took a lot of planning and extra hours working, but the graces that followed were absolutely worth it!
Since we are physical beings, being physically in the places were saints have walked the earth and so much Church history has happened is deeply moving. I could feel the presence of the saints whose tombs were visited. And the beauty alone of the churches - we just don’t have that in the US, and that beauty certainly aids in encountering the Lord.
Praying that anyone who feels called to pilgrimage will find the resources they need to make it a reality.
Holy Hill in Wisconsin, love it!
I really was very much moved by my pilgrimages to Patmos and the Cave of the Apocalypse and then to both Ephesus to see exactly where John preached and then to the house of the Virgin Mary shrine located on Mt. Koressos. Pope Saint Pius X granted plenary indulgences for pilgrims to the blessed mothers home starting in 1951.
Considering the Catholic Church doesn’t believe that it was Mary’s home…
@@jacobortega3424 Not exactly, According to the National Catholic Register, "Sister Marie’s discovery remains special to the faithful. Pope Leo XIII encouraged visits to the site, declaring it a place of pilgrimage. On Aug. 18, 1961, Pope St. John XXIII granted plenary indulgences upon Mary’s house for all time.
Today, the house is one of the holiest shrines in all of Christendom. Popes Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict each made special trips there to worship, and more than 1 million people visit every year. For Christians and many others around the world, it is an important house to visit." The Roman Catholic Church has never pronounced on the authenticity of the house, for lack of scientifically acceptable evidence. It has, however, from the blessing of the first pilgrimage by Pope Leo XIII in 1896, taken a positive attitude towards the site. Pope Pius XII, in 1951, following the definition of the dogma of the Assumption in 1950, elevated the house to the status of a Holy Place, a privilege later made permanent by Pope John XXIII.
In Pompei, Italy the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary where the painting of "Our Lady of the Rosary" restored by Bartolo Longo depicting the Virgin Mary and Child Jesus presenting rosaries to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena. Two great Dominicans.
“Not her head, but her body” 😂 We just love to scatter the saints Iron Giant-style don’t we?
Hey Padre. For context, I am a really good friend of Fr. Peter Fagan, OP We went to University of Dallas together. While I was at UD, we had a semester in Rome. I had lapsed from the Faith but going to Assisi on Good Friday 1986 kind of kickstarted my return to the faith. Attending Easter mass with Pope, St. JP2 looking down from the right colonnade onto St. Peter Square didn't hurt either
Cathedral of Immaculate Conception in Wichita KS where Servant of God Fr Emil Kapaun is buried.
Oklahoman here. Love the Blessed Stanley Shrine in Oklahoma City. Such a great witness in the city. I drive by it pretty much every Sunday on my way down to College. Definitely should stop by if you ever have the chance
Don't forget Lima, Peru - a beautiful old city, with great food, and the childhood homes and tombs of St. Rose of Lima and St. Martin of Porres. They are sites frequented by pilgrims, and set up for public access and could be visited by foreigners who fly in to Lima on their own. In Colombia is also Our Lady of Las Lajas, which is spectacular and miraculous, though a bit of a long drive/bus ride. Go with a tour group. Quito, Ecuador is also an amazing old historic city with a very walkable old downtown and nice hotels, and has the shrine of Our Lady of Good Success, which is locally popular and also draws foreigners on the days when the miraculous image is displayed in the church. Quito is also quite accessible for independent tourist visits.
I have encountered a few Philly fans. What a blessing, Father Pine is an exception to the rule! Haha!
My family made a pilgrimage to see the incorrupt body of Sister Wilhelmina in Gower, Missouri. Traveling down, I was curious if Sister Wilhelmina’s incorrupt body was still part of the Church militant, still suffering alongside the other pilgrims. I found sister Wilhelmina to look quite peaceful and a sense of peace. It seems rather that incorruptibles are signs of hope for us and not really still part of the Church militant.
Fortunately, the sisters had structured prayer at 3pm and we were able to participate. We were shocked and affirmed that so many young women filled the chapel. It seems obvious that Sister Wilhelmina has inspired so many to pick up their cross with joy.
There is a Marian shrine near Green Bay, WI, the site of the only Marian apparition to occur in the US.
@@katie7674 Our Lady of Champion!!! It's a must, so peaceful. It's our yearly Pilgrimage.
One of the place I might go in 2025 is Missouri where Sr Wilemina’s body was found to be incorupt. Great story also
If any of you ever end up in the south of Spain, go to El Rocío. It’s a beautiful pilgrimage place with amazing and very devoted people, traditions and also a beautiful nature. Generally speaking the south of Spain is a great place to be for the important days of the year. Again, lots of processions and very devoted people. God bless all of you.
And don't forget the Shrine of St Jude in Chicago. Dominican shrine and it has a relic of St Jude.
Catholic shrines are definitely inspirational my wife and I visited this summer a trifecta of Catholic shrines at Known as the “Lily of the Mohawks”, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha 2012 made a saint; in Auriesville, New York born to a Catholic Algonquin mother and a Mohawk Chief.
Pilgrims throughout the world travel to Upstate New York to tour Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine.
In 1646, Saint Jogues Isaac was martyred by the Mohawk at their village of Auresville NY, near the Mohawk River.
Then to Divine Mercy Shrine in Stockbridge MA.
Of course stocked up on holy water and many gifts from the gift shops Thank you Lord.
My wife is a catholic school teacher so she was able to purchase a beautiful wood plaque with the Beatitudes for her classroom.
Medjugorje - ❤. I wish I could go there again. These are the last Apparitions of Our Lady. But otherwise, as you say Father, go local where you live! I love Midland, Ontario, the Canadian Martyrs Shrine!
Our Lady of Walsingham shrine is so underrated! I loved making it out there for the abbey ruins, shops nearby, and the slipper chapel. It’s far less commercial from the other pilgrimage sites which is great.
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If anyone is in the Boston area, but wants a taste of Belgium/France/Canada, visit the Shrine of St. Joseph the Worker in Lowell, MA. Saint Eugene de Mazenod, OMI, inspired Fr. André Garin (same order) to travel from Canada to “Little Quebec” in Lowell to serve the population there during the Industrial Revolution. There are strong, direct ties in that part of the community to the apparitions in Beauraing, really cool stuff. The Pro-Maria Commitee is dedicated to preservation work regarding the apparitions.
The shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville, NY. Nearby is the shrine of St. Kateri Tekewitha. Two of my favs, and great for kids.
Saint Giovanni Rotondo, to visit Padre Pío, three hours from Rome by train.
I believe it's St John the Evangelist who appeared with Our Lady of Knock. That's my family's Parish for several generations. Someday I hope to get there.
Poland!! JP2’s hometown, Divine Mercy Shrine - St. Faustina, St. Maximilian Kolbe!! Also Assisi in Italy is amazing and a quick train ride from Rome.
Love you bro.
I’m obssessed with St. Dominic and, St. Vincent Ferrer! Please do videos on Dominican saints
Speaking of the California missions, Saint Junipero Serra is buried at Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. My wife and I have been a few times to visit. I typed this comment before completing the video so don't roast me if Father Gregory mentions this later on.
You’ve got to visit some German sites. You forgot to mention the bones of St Albertus Magnus in the crypt of St Anthony (just opposite the cologne cathedral). And if you go to the Netherlands why not hop over the border to Kevelaer and visit the consolatrix afflictorum? Also the Basilika St Mary of Kevelaer is the most beautiful church on the inside I’ve ever seen, everything is painted, it’s almost Byzantine…
Shrine of St Joseph in St Louis. A Vatican approved miracle is associated with the shrine.
Blessed Father Laval in Mauritius 🇲🇺
The Schoenstatt shrines!
Father, When you served in the piscines in Lourdes, did you serve with North American Lourdes Volunteers?
Hello Everyone, I would love to recommend Québec City, Canada which is VERY rich with catholic history and often forgotten. We have a holy door that is open for 2 years for the 350th of the Diocèse of Québec!
Completely agree... Philly is the best city 🤷
In Louisiana, the gravesite of Charlene Richard. The little cajun saint.
I’d like to recommend everyone the ‘’Sacred Mother trail’’ in Wufengchi mountain in Taiwan 🇹🇼
I got engaged at the Blue Army Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Washington, NJ
Why would I want to go to a one-bridge-having city like Philadelphia
It would be fun to hear you talk about the poustinia in the life of the Christian-if you feel it’s not too weird for you.
The Basilica in Chattanooga
St Genevieve MO
Gower KS
Texas Painted Churches. Nuff said
These are new to me! As someone who loves beautiful churches, newbucket list trip unlocked... 😊
What about Guadalupe, it is not far away from usa
All are invited to the Kentucky Holy Land (of which we are making a documentary)
The best pilgrimage does not entailing a passport. Does not produce a lot of CO2. Does not cost a lot to go to.
In every Mass/Divine Worship, we are there in the Upper Room on Holy Thursday. At Calvary on Calvary on Good Friday.
Maybe if we live that, and take the treasure spent on the pilgrimage for true Works of Charity and Mercy, we would be better Catholics. And might just convert some one by our example.
@@DominicMazoch yes totally right, you should tell that to that lady who poured the perfume on Christ.
And that wasn’t even something that would be an explicit event to aid in spiritual development, unlike a pilgrimage which is very helpful to revitalize our understanding of the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist and Calvary at the Mass.
CO2? Seriously? 😂
I hope to have my passport FILLED when the Lord decides it’s time for me to leave this earth.
@@bcd385you’ve read the churches teachings on climate change and how it acknowledges it to be a fact right? And how all serious meteorological experts and governments back up that position? You’d have to mistrust basically all legitimate authority, human and divine to resist the idea at this stage
@@minui8758 "Serious" experts also put us in lockdowns and told us to get the jab and the Pope said to do the "act of love"... Which now is coming more and more to the light that they lied, A LOT (not the Pope, the "experts", seems like the Pope just had really bad advisors). So no, I didn't read the Churches teaching on it nor I plan to. Yes, we should ABSOLUTELY take care of our planet, but it is not the Church's task to deal with "climate change", it is to SAVE SOULS. And doesn't hurt to open our eyes and see the evil agendas of "experts" and governments as well. Because, no, they're not conspiracy theories, only time shows that they are in fact true. Don't want to argue now over YT comments and that's all I going to say. God bless you.
I'm in NJ. Solo mom. Could I take my 2.5 year old to Philly to these sites? I'd love to do it w her but she's a true toddler. 😂
I frequently go to St. John Neumann Shrine, you can definitely bring your toddler there. There's a museum that's kid friendly, and he's in the lower church.
Is Fr Pine Caitlin Clark’s brother😅 He looks like her right?
GO BIRDS
Medjugorie is very dubious. And not mentioning any other places from non-Western Europe is just scandalous! 😮