page_title: Pilgrimage church
section_title: France
hierarchical_section_title: Pilgrimage church / List of Roman Catholic pilgrimage churches / France
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Basilique Notre Dame du Rosaire et Basilique de l'Immaculée Conception au dessus de la Grotte des Apparitions, et Gave de Pau, à Lourdes
context_page_description: A pilgrimage church is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way of St. James, that is visited by pilgrims.
  Pilgrimage churches are often located by the graves of saints, or hold portraits to which miraculous properties are ascribed or saintly relics that are safeguarded by the church for their veneration. Such relics may include the bones, books or pieces of clothing of the saints, occasionally also fragments of the cross of Jesus, pieces of the crown of thorns, the nails with which he was fixed to the cross and other similar objects. Pilgrimage churches were also built at places where miracles took place.
context_section_description: Eschau: St Trophimus' Church with the relics of Sophia the Martyr and her daughters Faith, Hope and Charity
  Haguenau: Basilica of Our Lady of Marienthal
  Le Puy-en-Velay: pilgrimage church of Notre-Dame du Puy
  Lisieux: sanctuary of saint Teresa of the Child Jesus
  Lourdes: site of Marian apparitions with the healing spring
  Neuwiller-lès-Saverne: Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, with the relics of local saint Adelphus
  Marseille: pilgrimage church of Notre-Dame de la Garde
  Mont St. Michel: St. Michel
  Paray-le-Monial: sanctuary of saint Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Sacred Heart
  Paris: Sainte-Chapelle with the Crown of Thorns
  Ronchamp: pilgrimage chapel of Notre Dame du Haut
caption: Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
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