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The Basilica of Sainte-Thérèse of Lisieux (French: Basilique Sainte-Thérèse de Lisieux) is a Catholic church and minor basilica dedicated to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. Located in Lisieux, France, the large basilica can accommodate 4,000 people and, with more than two million visitors a year, is the second largest pilgrimage site in France ...
Devotion to Sainte-Thérèse also known as St. Teresa of the Child Jesus who lived in the nearby Carmelite convent has made Lisieux France's second-most important site of pilgrimage, after the Pyrenean town of Lourdes. Sainte-Thérèse de Lisieux died in 1897, she was canonized in 1925 and named a doctor of the church by Pope John Paul II in 1997.
On 3 June 1980, he made a pilgrimage to Lisieux in northern France, the home town of St. Therese of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face. [12] In 1997 he declared St. Therese the third woman Doctor of the Church. [13] His 1980 visit to France was the first by a pope since 1814 and his journey to West Germany in November 1980 was the first since ...
Therese of Lisieux OCD (French: Thérèse de Lisieux [teʁɛz də lizjø]; born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), in religion Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus et de la Sainte Face), was a French Discalced Carmelite who is widely venerated in modern times.
From Ilam, Staffordshire (a place of pilgrimage since St Bertram, a Saxon saint and hermit) to St Lawrence's church in the Plague Village of Eyam, Peak District; St Albans Cathedral, England. Associated with the country's first martyr, Saint Alban; St Andrews Cathedral, Scotland. For the recently revived pilgrimage tradition here see The Way of ...
Map of the Pays d’Auge, 1716. The Pays d'Auge (French pronunciation: [pei doʒ], literally Land of Auge) is an area in Normandy, straddling the départements of Calvados and Orne (plus a small part of the territory of Eure). The chief town is Lisieux.
The most notable feature of the village is the large Basilica of Sainte-Anne d'Auray, which is a major site of pilgrimage. Saint Anne is the patron saint of Brittany. The Basilica was built in Neo-Gothic style from 1865 to 1872 to replace an earlier church which had housed the ancient statue of Anne said to have been miraculously discovered by Yves Nicolazic.
St. Anne des Lacs was a rural shrine built about 1920 by French-speaking Catholics on Lake St. Anne, a lake of about 15 acres (6 ha), located about six miles (10 km) east of Lake Wales, Florida [1] [2] and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of S.R. 60. It was built of stone, a rare and rarely used material in Florida.