Shrines and Pilgrimage Sites

Shrine pilgrimage pinnacle of Jubilee celebrations

Luke Mandato · August 9, 2025

Jubilee Year celebrations in the Archdiocese of Toronto will bring faithful from across the Greater Toronto Area together in pilgrimage to Martyrs’ Shrine later this month.

The ultimate Canadian Catholic road trip

Embrace the faith in your homeland this summer

Quinton Amundson · June 28, 2025

Whether the motivation is a boycott of the United States over its current posturing towards Canada, the ongoing affordability crisis or a host of other reasons, it is clear a greater number of Canadians plan to spend summer in their homeland.

‘Urban pilgrimage’ brings Jubilee to streets of Montreal

Anna Farrow · June 28, 2025

The Archdiocese of Montreal’s youth office is providing a local alternative for the Jubilee Year by creating a map of pilgrimage for the city of Montreal.

Martyrs' blood the seed of Canadian Church

100 years since Canadian Martyrs were beatified

Luke Mandato · June 7, 2025

It was 100 years ago this month that the eight men who dedicated their lives in honouring God and their neighbour throughout their missionary work and would become known as the Canadian Martyrs were beatified, setting the stage for their canonization five years later.

New miracle confirmed from Lourdes sanctuary

Caroline de Sury · April 17, 2025

In a joyful moment after the rosary on St. Bernadette Soubirous' feast day April 16 at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, the shrine's rector, Father Michel Daubanes, announced that a 72nd miracle at the famed pilgrimage site has been recognized.

Lourdes bishop covering Father Rupnik's mosaics on sanctuary's basilica doors

Federica Tourn · March 31, 2025

Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes has decided to cover mosaics by Father Marko Rupnik at the entrance of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, a move aimed at making the basilica more welcoming for all, particularly victims of abuse.

St. Joseph’s Oratory opens welcome centre

Part of $150-million reno of venerable Montreal shrine

Anna Farrow · March 1, 2025

On a cold and snowy Feb. 13, Montreal's St. Joseph’s Oratory officially opened a newly constructed, four-level welcome centre to visitors.

The sick come to Lourdes to find peace, heal internally

Caroline de Sury · February 11, 2025

Even though a pilgrimage peak is some months away, the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes celebrated its wintery feast day Feb. 11 with a number of pilgrims who flocked to the French holy site on the anniversary of the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin to St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858.

Saint Paul U Camino course shows the Way

Luke Mandato · December 1, 2024

Saint Paul University is offering a unique interactive course next spring that will allow students and the public alike to traverse part of a major historic Christian pilgrimage, the Camino de Santiago.

Flash flooding temporarily closes Lourdes' grotto

Maria Wiering · September 9, 2024

River flooding forced the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France. The shrine complex remained open to visitors. A morning Mass, however, was canceled Sept. 7 at the major Catholic pilgrimage site, which has experienced several major floods in recent years.