Why pilgrims come
A sacred place worth the journey.
Malaysia's great St. Anne pilgrimage center, where a ten-day July novena and feast draws roughly 200,000 pilgrims and celebrates Mass in several of the country's Catholic languages.
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The pilgrim’s guide
What makes this visit meaningful
Make St. Anne's the principal northern Malaysia pilgrimage. The sanctuary joins an 1846 hill chapel, the 1888 shrine church, and the large modern basilica within one active devotional campus.
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Minor basilica
Join the living multilingual parish and pilgrimage liturgy.
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Historic hill shrine
Trace devotion from the nineteenth-century Chinese Catholic settlement.
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Ten-day July feast
Experience one of Southeast Asia's largest Catholic pilgrimages when the annual program permits.
Feasts, anniversaries & celebrations
Novena and Feast of St. AnneDates and multilingual liturgies are announced annually. Penang recognized the feast as state intangible cultural heritage in 2026.