Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
North American Martyrs and St. Kateri Tekakwitha The National Shrine of the North American Martyrs , also known as the Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs , is a Roman Catholic shrine in Auriesville, New York dedicated to the three Jesuit missionaries who were martyred at the Mohawk Indian village of Ossernenon in 1642 and 1646.
In 1884, Joseph Loyzance, then parish priest of St. Joseph's, Troy, New York, purchased 10 acres (40,000 m 2) of land on the hill at Auriesville. A student of the lives of the early missionaries, Loyzance erected a small shrine under the title of Our Lady of Martyrs. He was the first to lead a number of pilgrims to the place, on 15 August of ...
in St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church in Santa Clarita, California. [44] [45] A statue of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha stands at the steps of Holy Cross School at San Buenaventura Mission in Southern California [46] the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin [47] the bronze portal of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. [48]
The largest of these monuments is the Shrine of the North American Martyrs, built in Auriesville, New York in 1930. It honors Jogues, René Goupil, Louis Lalande, and Kateri Tekakwitha. [17] It was completed in 1930. The shrine also honors Jean de Brébeuf and five of his companions killed in Canada in 1648 and 1649.
A National Shrine of the North American Martyrs has been constructed and dedicated in Auriesville, New York. [12] It is located south of the Mohawk River, near a Jesuit cemetery containing remains of missionaries who died in the area from 1669 to 1684, when the Jesuits had a local mission to the Mohawk.
It is on the grounds of the Saint Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine & Historic Site, a ministry dedicated to Kateri Tekakwitha, who was canonized in 2012 as the first Native North American saint in the Roman Catholic Church. [2] Nearby on the Shrine grounds is the Mohawk-Caughnawaga Museum, which includes artifacts found at the dig site.
National Shrine of the North American Martyrs; in Auriesville, New York [26] Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation; in Carey, Ohio [27] Our Lady of Czestochowa: National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa; in Doylestown, Pennsylvania [28] Black Madonna Shrine and Grotto; near Pacific, Missouri
A priest in 1884 erected the shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs in Auriesville, dedicated to the three French priests who were killed in New York during the 1640s. [15] In 1886, the Vatican erected the Diocese of Syracuse, taking central New York from the Diocese of Albany. [16] McNeiry died in 1894.