Marian shrines

The Virgin of Miracles or Saint Mary of La Rábida

An outdoor chapel facing Rosary Square in Lourdes has lovely pastel colours and this mosaic image of Our Lady of Lourdes hovers over a statue of St Bernadette.

Oblate Sisters (Yankton) at Marian shrine, 1949 | by Marquette University Archives

blue shrine with image of virgin mary and vintage by DianaDDarden

In this blog post, we will list down the must-visit Marian Shrines in Ohio. These Shrines offer peaceful ambiance to pray and reflect.

A Kazakh artist is creating possibly the first-ever painting of Mary and the Child Jesus as native Kazakhs; it will be displayed in Kazakhstan’s only Marian shrine.

The procession of the Sovereign Mother (Our Lady of Piety) attract thousands of pilgrims to the Marian shrine of Loulé, in Algarve.

Roadside shrine, Poland, Mother of God knitting

Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

Velankanni Church, Nagapattinam

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Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genitrix // This photo shows a Marian shrine in Anchorage, Alaska // photo: Lawrence OP

For more than 950 years, pilgrims have been making their way to a small medieval village in England's Norfolk region to visit the site of a Marian apparition and what is believed to be the oldest shrine to Our Lady in the world.

Adele Brise’s cause for canonization moved forward just before pilgrims arrived at the only Marian apparition site in the U.S.