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The Sanctuary of Fátima is a Catholic Marian shrine located in central Portugal. The site was established following reports from three shepherd children who stated they witnessed apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1917. At the center of the complex is the Chapel of the Apparitions, built on the exact...
The Shrine of Our Lady of Knock is a major Roman Catholic pilgrimage site located in County Mayo, Ireland. It commemorates an 1879 apparition in which 15 locals reported seeing the Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, and Saint John the Evangelist beside an altar. Unlike other Marian apparitions, the event oc...
Catholic pilgrimage sanctuary in La Salette-Fallavaux, France, established after the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to two shepherd children on September 19, 1846, and subsequently recognized by the Church.
The Sanctuary of Fátima is a Catholic pilgrimage site in central Portugal built on the location where three shepherd children reported visions of the Virgin Mary in 1917. The complex includes the Chapel of the Apparitions, which marks the exact spot of the sightings, and the larger Basilica of Our L...
The Shrine of Our Lady of La Vang is a Catholic Marian site located in Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam, where the Virgin Mary was said to have appeared to a group of persecuted Catholics circa 1798. Pope John Paul II blessed the site during his 1988 visit, and the complex was designated a minor basilica...
The Shrine of Our Lady of Kibeho is a Catholic Marian site in southern Rwanda where a series of reported apparitions began in 1981. After a years-long investigation, the local bishop declared the apparitions worthy of belief in 2001, and the site has since drawn pilgrims from across Africa and beyon...
The Shrine of the Miraculous Medal is a Catholic chapel located at 140 Rue du Bac in Paris, France, within the motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity. According to tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared to Catherine Labouré in 1830 and instructed her to have the Miraculous Medal struck. The chapel hou...
The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help is a Catholic pilgrimage site located in Champion, Wisconsin. It is recognized as the only Marian apparition site in the United States formally approved by the Catholic Church. The shrine commemorates a series of visions reported by a Belgian immigrant named Adele...
The Shrine of Our Lady of Pontmain is a Catholic pilgrimage site in Pontmain, France, marking the location of a Marian apparition reported by several local children on January 17, 1871, during the Franco-Prussian War. The apparition, which included a message of hope, received episcopal approval and...
The Shrine of Our Lady of Banneux is a Catholic Marian shrine located in the village of Banneux in Belgium. It marks the site where the Virgin Mary, identifying herself as the 'Virgin of the Poor,' reportedly appeared to 11-year-old Mariette Beco eight times between January and March 1933. The appar...
Bosnian village where six local children reported ongoing apparitions of the Virgin Mary beginning in 1981; it draws millions of pilgrims annually despite lacking official Vatican recognition as an approved apparition site.
Belgian Marian shrine in Beauraing where the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to five children 33 times between 1932 and 1933; the apparitions received Church approval in 1949, making it one of Belgium's major pilgrimage sites.
The Grey Man of Ben Macdui is a Scottish mountain apparition reported on Britain's second-highest peak, notably described by climber J. Norman Collie in 1925.
Catholic pilgrimage site in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where six residents reported ongoing visions of the Virgin Mary beginning in 1981, drawing millions of visitors annually.
Catholic pilgrimage site in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, established after fifteen witnesses reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, and Saint John in 1879.
