Pilgrimage Sites in England (UK)

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Aylesford

Aylesford Priory, dating from 1242, is the oldest Carmelite foundation in England where St. Simon Stock received the Brown Scapular from Our Lady.

Canterbury's St Thomas of Canterbury Church holds the shrine and relics of St Thomas Becket, martyred in the cathedral here in 1170.

Crediton houses the National Shrine of St Boniface, the great Anglo-Saxon missionary born here in 680 who became patron saint of Germany and Devon.

Durham Cathedral houses the Shrine of St Cuthbert, making it a major pilgrimage destination for Catholics seeking spiritual healing.

Farnborough houses England's National Shrine to St Joseph at St Michael's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery drawing Catholic pilgrims.

Faversham hosts England's National Shrine of Saint Jude, a major Catholic pilgrimage center with a relic of the Apostle and medieval devotional art.

Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, is a sacred pilgrimage site where St. Aidan founded the first Celtic Christian monastery in 635 AD.

London's Catholic heritage outlasted the Reformation — Westminster Cathedral, the Tyburn martyrs' shrine and St Etheldreda's still draw pilgrims.

Ramsgate hosts the official Shrine of St Augustine of England, commemorating where the Apostle of the English first brought Christianity in 597 AD.

Walsingham, "England's Nazareth," has been a Marian pilgrimage site since Our Lady appeared to Lady Richeldis in 1061.