Pilgrimage Sites Dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption
Zelená Hora
Czechia · Europe
Santini built this church on a five-pointed star for St. John of Nepomuk, the martyr of the confessional seal. UNESCO listed it in 1994.
Palermo
Italy · Europe
In 1625 Palermo dismissed its four patron saints for one — St. Rosalia, whose bones came down Monte Pellegrino as the plague lifted.
Aglona
Latvia · Europe
Aglona is Latvia's most important Catholic pilgrimage site, home to the Basilica of the Assumption with its miraculous 17th-century icon of Our Lady.
Orselina
Switzerland · Europe
Madonna del Sasso, on a rock 370 m above Lake Maggiore, built after a Franciscan friar's vision of the Virgin in 1480.
Ettal
Germany · Europe
Imperial foundation where Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian's miraculous marble Madonna has drawn pilgrims since 1330, now crowned by one of Bavaria's most magnificent Baroque domes in a stunning Alpine valley.
Maria Laach
Germany · Europe
Germany's finest Romanesque abbey, rising from the shores of a volcanic crater lake—a thousand-year-old Benedictine sanctuary that became the heart of the 20th-century Liturgical Movement.
Ettal
Germany · Europe
Imperial foundation where Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian's miraculous marble Madonna has drawn pilgrims since 1330, now crowned by one of Bavaria's most magnificent Baroque domes in a stunning Alpine valley.
Valladolid
Spain · Europe
Valladolid's magnificent Cathedral serves as the spiritual heart of this historic Spanish city, housing sacred art and architectural treasures.
Braga
Portugal · Europe
Braga, known as the 'Portuguese Rome,' is home to magnificent sanctuaries and churches that have attracted Catholic pilgrims for centuries.
Maria Saal
Austria · Europe
Carinthia's "mother church" founded c. 753, where Slavic peoples first embraced Western Christianity.