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The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church.
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Abbey of St. Foy is longtime medieval pilgrimage ...
The Abbey of St. Foy, nestled in the hills of southern France is a beautiful Romanesque church perfectly aligned ...
Austere Abbaye de Fonteny filled only with light
Found in the Burgundy Valley, the Abbaye de Fontenay is a well-restored 12th-century Cistercian monastery founded by ...
British man visits all of the world's 201 nations - ...
The Basilique Ste-Madeleine second only to Notre Dame ...
Mont-St-Michel island abbey connected with natural ...
Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire Abbey greets visitors near ...
The Abbey of Fontfroide was onetime center of orthodoxy
France's Saint Hilaire Abbey contains sarcophagus of ...
Bring binoculars to the St. Matthias Abbey Church to ...
Masterpiece of German Romanesque architecture, the ...
Holy Land (Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jordan)
The Holy Land (also known as Bilad Ash'Sham in Arabic) is a term which refers to the geographical region of the Levant of no definite borders which has significant religious importance for Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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Britain & Ireland
Ireland is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. Christianity came to Ireland by the early 5th century, and spread through the works of early missionaries such as Palladius, and Saint Patrick.
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St Michael's Mount
Christ Church Cathedral
Monasterboice
Stonehenge
The Rock of Cashel
Canterbury Cathedral
Greece (Footsteps of St. Paul)
Modern Greece traces its roots to the civilisation of ancient Greece, generally considered the cradle of Western civilization. It is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature, political science and more.
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Fatima & Spain
Our Lady of Fatima is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary with respect to reported apparitions of her to three shepherd children at Fatima in Portugal on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13.
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The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima
Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Basilica and Expiatory Church of the ...
Lourdes & France
Lourdes is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees, famous for the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes that are reported to have occurred in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous.
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Guadalupe & Mexico
According to tradition, Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, saw a vision of a young woman on December 9, 1531, while he was on the hill of Tepeyac near Mexico City, Mexico. Guadalupe is Mexico's most popular religious and cultural images.
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Medjugorje & Central Europe
In March 2010, the Holy See announced that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was forming an investigative commission, composed of bishops, theologians, and other experts, under the leadership of Cardinal Camillo Ruini.
