This is a growing resource that includes Catholic sites with historical and spiritual significance. Please comment below if you have a suggestion for a place to be included on this list! Perhaps you’re lucky to have one in your own town that you’d like to share!
Alabama
Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Hanceville
California
The 21 California Missions in order from south to north along The Camino Real (“The King’s Road” that connects the 21 missions).
- Active parish, Mass and reconciliation, visitor center, gift shop, guided tours (book in advance, fee)
- Active parish, Mass, spiritual retreat center, museum with self guided tour and entry fee, gift shop
- Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano is adjacent to the historic mission and is an active parish with Mass and reconciliation available
- Little Pilgrim article about the historic mission on St. Joseph’s Day
San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo
- Shrine of Saint Junipero Serra
- Part of the Solano State Historic Park, no longer a property belonging to the Catholic Church
Colorado
Mother Cabrini Shrine, Golden
Connecticut
The Shrine of Lourdes, Litchfield
Florida
Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche, & Mission Nombre de Dios, St. Augustine
Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, St. Augustine
Georgia
Flannery O’Conner’s childhood home, Savannah
Andalusia, Flannery O’Conner’s home, Milledgeville
Idaho
Old Mission State Park, Couer d’Alene
Illinois
Archbishop Fulton Sheen Museum, Peoria
The National Shrine of St. Maximillian Kolbe, Libertyville
Iowa
Shrine of the Grotto of the Redemption, West Bend
Maryland
Basilica of the Assumption, Baltimore
- America’s first cathedral
St. Mary’s Spiritual Center & Mother Seton House, Baltimore
National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Emmitsburg
Michigan
Solanus Casey Center, Detroit
New Jersey
Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark
New Mexico
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Santa Fe
New York
Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs, Auriesville
- birthplace of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Ohio
National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation, Carey
Oregon
National Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrow, the Grotto, Portland, OR
Mount Angel Abbey, Mt. Angel
Pennsylvania
Shrine of Saint Katharine Drexel, Philadelphia
Shrine of Saint John Neumann, Philadelphia
Texas
The Texas Missions – more information coming soon…
Corpus Christi de la Ysleta, El Paso
Nuestra Senora de la Limpia Concepcion de Los Piros de Socorro del Sur, Socorro
San Francisco de los Tejas, Weches
Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, San Antonio
San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo), San Antonio
San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, San Antonio
Nuestra Senora del Espiritu Santo de Zuniga, Goliad
San Francisco de la Espada, San Antonio
San Juan Capistrano, San Antonio
Virginia
Basilica of St. Mary, Alexandria
Washington, D.C.
Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Wisconsin
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, La Crosse
