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Follow a city.
Follow a sacred story.

Begin with a place, a saint, a devotion, or a historic road. Every guide is designed to help turn discovery into a meaningful pilgrimage.

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Pray & learn

The Rosary.
Walk the Gospel with Mary.

Discover why the Church returns to this Christ-centered prayer, follow its witness at Fatima and Lourdes, meet the saints and popes who loved it, and learn how to begin.

Devotional guideContemplate Christ.
One mystery at a time.Open the Rosary guide →

Faith & Scripture

Follow the words.
Profess the faith.

Learn how Jesus’s Aramaic-speaking world became the Greek New Testament, then trace the Church’s confessions from the apostolic proclamation to the two Catholic creeds used today.

Scripture · language · manuscriptsThe language of the BibleOpen the formation guide →Faith · councils · liturgyHow the Catholic creeds developedFollow the creed timeline →

Pilgrim stays

Let hospitality become part of the pilgrimage.

Find monasteries, convents, abbeys, retreat houses, and sacred guesthouses with verified overnight hospitality—then book directly with the religious community.

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Growing directory42 stays.
17 countries.
One sacred map.Rooms · meals · prayer · accessibility · direct booking

Catholic city guides

Go deeper than a pin.

City guides gather the places, sacred events, neighborhood groupings, and suggested itineraries that make a Catholic journey practical.

ItalyRome11 sacred places · 3 suggested journeysOpen city guide →Holy LandJerusalem & the Holy Land27 sacred places · 4 suggested journeysOpen city guide →JapanNagasaki10 sacred places · 3 suggested journeysOpen city guide →United KingdomLondon6 sacred places · 3 suggested journeysOpen city guide →PeruLima9 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →South KoreaSeoul24 sacred places · 3 suggested journeysOpen city guide →MexicoMexico City12 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →El SalvadorSan Salvador4 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →ChileSantiago4 sacred places · 1 suggested journeysOpen city guide →ColombiaBogotá3 sacred places · 1 suggested journeysOpen city guide →PhilippinesManila4 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →ItalyAssisi7 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →FranceParis8 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →ItalyTurin6 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →United StatesNew York City6 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →CanadaMontreal5 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →PolandKraków6 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →FranceLourdes4 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →SpainSantiago de Compostela4 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →ItalyNaples7 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →ItalyPadua5 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →PortugalFátima5 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →CanadaQuebec City5 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →EcuadorQuito6 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →IndiaGoa5 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →FranceLisieux4 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →ItalyCatania4 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →United StatesPhiladelphia4 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →GermanyCologne5 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →PhilippinesCebu4 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →TunisiaCarthage4 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →FranceLyon & Ars6 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →BrazilAparecida5 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →AustraliaMelbourne4 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →AustraliaPenola & Adelaide8 sacred places · 2 suggested journeysOpen city guide →

Browse by geography

A reference library behind the map.

Country and regional directories link directly to every published destination, making the catalog easier for pilgrims and search engines to explore.

Browse 117 countriesBrowse world regions
226 sacred placesEuropeCatholic shrines, saints’ tombs, monasteries, historic churches, and pilgrimage routes across Europe.Open regional directory →10 sacred placesHoly Land & Middle EastBiblical places, ancient Christian communities, active Catholic shrines, and carefully labeled heritage across the Holy Land and Middle East.Open regional directory →43 sacred placesAfricaMartyr shrines, Marian pilgrimage, ancient churches, monasteries, and living Catholic communities across Africa.Open regional directory →126 sacred placesAsiaApostolic traditions, martyr churches, Marian shrines, and living Catholic pilgrimage across Asia.Open regional directory →96 sacred placesNorth AmericaShrines, missions, saints, monasteries, and Catholic pilgrimage destinations across North America.Open regional directory →12 sacred placesCentral America & CaribbeanNational shrines, Marian devotions, monasteries, and martyr memory across Central America and the Caribbean.Open regional directory →

Browse by sacred theme

Begin with what moves you.

Explore the worldwide catalog through Marian apparitions, Eucharistic miracles, saints’ relics and tombs, shrines, monasteries, martyr witness, historic churches, and archaeology.

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54 sacred placesMarian apparitionsCatholic pilgrimage sites connected with reported Marian apparitions, presented with each destination’s recognition and source context.Open thematic directory →110 sacred placesEucharistic miraclesChurches and shrines associated with reported Eucharistic miracles, including the destinations gathered through St. Carlo Acutis’s legacy.Open thematic directory →182 sacred placesSaints’ tombs & relicsCatholic pilgrimage destinations where saints are buried or where relics are publicly venerated.Open thematic directory →212 sacred placesCatholic shrinesA worldwide directory of Catholic shrines and sanctuaries for prayer, pilgrimage, and sacred memory.Open thematic directory →69 sacred placesMonasteries & hermitagesHistoric and living monasteries, convent churches, and hermitages that welcome pilgrims or preserve Christian memory.Open thematic directory →262 sacred placesHistoric churchesCathedrals, basilicas, and historic Catholic churches with enduring architectural, devotional, or ecclesial significance.Open thematic directory →10 sacred placesMartyr sitesChurches, memorials, and historic places that preserve the witness of Catholic martyrs.Open thematic directory →64 sacred placesBiblical archaeologyArchaeological places connected with the biblical world and the earliest centuries of Christianity.Open thematic directory →

Featured collections

Explore by devotion and witness.

Our flagship collections connect destinations through a saint, a source, a recognized route, or a defining Catholic story. The full library keeps regional guides and sacred themes in their own clear sections.

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Catholic Tourist flagship journeySt. Paul the Apostle's JourneyConversion. Mission. Shipwreck. Imprisonment. Martyrdom. Rome.Enter the apostolic journey →
Martyr witness · JapanHidden ChristiansChurches, villages, and martyr sites that preserve the astonishing witness of Japan’s hidden Christians.Explore collection →Marian source collectionSee How She Loves UsA companion map to the Marian apparition destinations gathered in See How She Loves Us.Explore collection →Eucharistic source collectionSt. Carlo AcutisChurches and shrines connected with Eucharistic miracles documented through St. Carlo Acutis’s exhibition project.Explore collection →Vatican-recognized route · South KoreaSeoul Catholic PilgrimageTwenty-four churches, martyr shrines, relic sites, and historic places on Seoul’s international pilgrimage route.Explore collection →

Regional guides

Start with the part of the world you are visiting.

Regional guides gather Catholic places across a country or broader geography without treating every region as the same kind of pilgrimage narrative.

Apostolic memory · Indian saints · living ritesCatholic India: Apostles, Saints & Living ChurchesSt. Thomas traditions, Indian saints’ tombs, and living Roman and Syro-Malabar Catholic pilgrimage.Open regional guide →National shrine · Mary · minority witnessCatholic Pakistan: Marian Pilgrimage & Minority WitnessPakistan’s national Marian pilgrimage at Mariamabad, with explicit safety and minority-context guidance.Open regional guide →Martyrs · Holy Week · inculturationCatholic Southeast Asia: Martyrs, Mary & InculturationThai martyrs, Indonesian pilgrimage, Timor-Leste’s Marian heart, and Singapore’s mission history.Open regional guide →Marian roads · martyrs · Passion shrinesCatholic Mexico Beyond the CapitalRegional pilgrimages from Jalisco and Oaxaca to Guanajuato, Zacatecas, and Michoacán.Open regional guide →Regional guide · AustraliaCatholic AustraliaFollow St. Mary MacKillop, pray at major Marian sanctuaries, and visit Australia’s distinctive Catholic places.Open regional guide →Regional guide · Central AmericaCatholic Central AmericaBlack Christ devotions, Marian shrines, saints’ tombs, and the martyr path of St. Óscar Romero.Open regional guide →National shrines · Marian devotion · Benedictine prayerCatholic Caribbean: Mary, Monasteries & Living PilgrimageEl Cobre, Higüey, Siparia, Mount St. Benedict, and Hormigueros across four distinct Caribbean Catholic cultures.Open regional guide →Mary · St. Anthony · reconciliation · coastal pilgrimageCatholic Sri Lanka: Shrines, Martyrs & PilgrimageMadhu, Tewatte, Kochchikade, and Thalawila in a first guide to Sri Lanka’s living Catholic pilgrimage landscape.Open regional guide →Regional guide · PhilippinesCatholic PhilippinesLiving shrines, Santo Niño devotion, and the country’s UNESCO-listed Baroque churches.Open regional guide →Regional guide · VietnamCatholic VietnamLa Vang, the Vietnamese Martyrs at Sở Kiện, and the sacred landscape of Phát Diệm.Open regional guide →Regional story · AfricaCatholic Africa: Mary and the MartyrsKibeho, Subukia’s spring, the Uganda Martyrs road, and Yamoussoukro’s prayer for peace.Open regional guide →Regional story · Russia and Central AsiaCatholic Witness in Russia & Central AsiaOziornoe, Karaganda, Fatima devotion, missionary martyrs, and churches restored after suppression.Open regional guide →AD 301 - martyrs - monasteries - two Armenian ChurchesChristian Armenia: First Christian State & Living ChurchesHoly Etchmiadzin, Gregory the Illuminator, Armenia’s martyr shrines, rock-cut monasticism, and a living Armenian Catholic cathedral—with present custody labeled clearly.Open regional guide →Regional guide · Greece and TürkiyeCatholic Greece & Türkiye: The Apostolic MediterraneanSt. Paul’s cities, the Seven Churches, apostolic shrines, early-Christian ruins, and living Catholic anchors across the Aegean.Open regional guide →Regional guide · South AmericaCatholic South America: Saints, Mary & MiraclesNational Marian shrines, saints’ tombs and living pilgrimages across the Andes, Brazil and Colombia.Open regional guide →Regional guide · South KoreaCatholic Korea: Martyrs & MissionJourney beyond Seoul to the birthplace, tomb, refuges and execution grounds of Korea’s martyr Church.Open regional guide →Regional guide · New YorkCatholic New York StateKateri country, the North American Martyrs, Saint Marianne Cope, Marian shrines, Graymoor, and New York City.Open regional guide →Regional guide · Western United StatesCatholic Western United StatesDesert shrines, living Indigenous Catholic communities, California missions, mountain monasteries, and saints across Alaska and Hawaiʻi.Open regional guide →Regional guide · CanadaCatholic CanadaNational shrines, the Canadian Martyrs, Indigenous and Métis pilgrimage, Benedictine hospitality, and Acadian Catholic memory from coast to Arctic.Open regional guide →Saints · medieval routes · Nordic landsNordic Saints and Medieval PilgrimageSt. Bridget, St. Olav, St. Henry, St. Thorlak, St. Ansgar, healing crucifixes, revived pilgrim ways, and the medieval North Atlantic Church.Open regional guide →Shrines · missions · living communitiesCatholic MalaysiaSt. Anne’s great feast, Melaka’s missionary coast, forest pilgrimage in Sarawak, and Indigenous Catholic witness in Sabah.Open regional guide →Martyrs · monasteries · interreligious encounterCatholic Morocco: Martyrs, Monasteries & EncounterFranciscan protomartyrs, Atlas monastic prayer, living cathedrals, retreat hospitality, and carefully labeled Christian heritage in Morocco.Open regional guide →Marian patronage · migrant Church · papal encounterCatholic Arabian Gulf: Mary, Migrants & EncounterOur Lady of Arabia, the Gulf’s first churches, papal encounters, multilingual migrant communities, and Najran’s ancient Christian martyr landscape.Open regional guide →Chaldean Church · Syriac Christianity · restorationChristian Iraq: Chaldean, Syriac & RebuiltBaghdad’s Catholic cathedrals, Qaraqosh and Mosul after ISIS, saintly tombs, and the ancient monasteries of the Nineveh Plain.Open regional guide →Divine Mercy · Marian shrines · saintsCatholic Poland & Lithuania: Mercy, Mary & WitnessPłock, Kraków, Vilnius, Jasna Góra, Šiluva, St. Casimir, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and the Hill of Crosses in one cross-border pilgrimage story.Open regional guide →Patron saints · Marian mountains · two Catholic ritesCatholic Czechia & Slovakia: Saints, Slavs & Marian PilgrimagePrague and Stará Boleslav, Moravia’s pilgrimage mountains, Great Moravian mission memory, Slovakia’s national shrines, and living Byzantine Catholic pilgrimage.Open regional guide →Holy Right · Marian shrines · two Catholic ritesCatholic Hungary: Crown, Saints & Marian WaysBudapest and Esztergom, Latin and Byzantine Catholic shrines, St. Ladislaus and St. Martin, Benedictine hospitality, and Hungary’s living pilgrimage routes.Open regional guide →National shrines · Franciscan roads · saints and martyrsCatholic Croatia, Slovenia & Bosnia-HerzegovinaThree distinct Catholic landscapes connected by Marian pilgrimage, Eucharistic devotion, monastic continuity, saints, martyrs, and the Franciscan road through Bosnia.Open regional guide →Marian shrines · Eastern Catholic churches · martyrsCatholic Romania: Mary, Martyrs & Eastern Catholic WitnessȘumuleu Ciuc, Blaj, Cacica, Catholic relics and tombs, Armenian Catholic Gherla, and carefully labeled shared heritage under present custody.Open regional guide →National shrines · martyrs · Mother Teresa · ancient churchesCatholic Albania & the Southern BalkansAlbania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro through Marian pilgrimage, Communist-era martyrs, living Catholic rites, relics, and early-Christian archaeology.Open regional guide →Icons · martyrs · two Catholic rites · research onlyCatholic Ukraine & Belarus: Icons, Martyrs & Churches Under PressureUkrainian Greek Catholic and Latin Catholic pilgrimage, Belarusian Marian sanctuaries, martyr witness, and churches documented under war or state pressure.Open regional guide →

Thematic journeys

Follow a life of faith.

These are ordered pilgrimage itineraries across modern transport networks—not claims of a continuous marked trail.

5-day journey

In the Footsteps of St. Augustine

A thematic pilgrimage through the decisive places in Augustine’s life. It crosses countries and modern transport networks, so it is intentionally presented as an ordered itinerary—not as a continuous walking route.

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Historic pilgrimage routes

Walk an inherited road.

Mapped corridors are approximate planning aids. Follow current official route guidance on the ground.

Historic route

Camino de Santiago

Camino Francés

Distance
About 800 km
Map
Worldwide map

The classic pilgrimage corridor from the Pyrenees to the tomb of St. James in Santiago de Compostela.

Available from the Historic routes panel on the sacred map.Official route source ↗
Historic route

Way of Assisi

Via di Francesco

Distance
Under 500 km
Map
Worldwide map

A Franciscan pilgrimage through La Verna, Gubbio and Assisi, continuing south toward Rome.

Available from the Historic routes panel on the sacred map.Official route source ↗
Historic route

Seoul · Word Route

The Word Route

Distance
8.7 km
Map
Worldwide map

The 8.7 km first course of the Vatican-recognized Seoul Catholic Pilgrimage Route, tracing Korea’s lay-led reception of the faith.

Available from the Historic routes panel on the sacred map.Official route source ↗
Historic route

Seoul · Life Route

The Life Route

Distance
5.9 km
Map
Worldwide map

The 5.9 km second course through Seoul’s tribunals, prisons, martyrdom places and pilgrimage churches.

Available from the Historic routes panel on the sacred map.Official route source ↗
Historic route

Seoul · Unity Route

The Unity Route

Distance
29.5 km
Map
Worldwide map

The 29.5 km third course joining major martyr shrines, reliquaries and former burial places across Seoul.

Available from the Historic routes panel on the sacred map.Official route source ↗

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