Revd Gareth Leyshon - Pastoral Resources

A Selection of Shrines

• Where Jesus encouraged St Margaret Mary Alacoque to practice devotion to His most Sacred Heart.

• Where Our Lord appeared to St Faustina, asking her to make his mercy known to all humankind.

• Founded when Our Lady spoke in a dream in the year 1061, this shrine became THE European centre of pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin Mary, until its destruction under King Henry VIII.

• The Welsh National Shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

• The Cardiff Archdiocesan Shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

• Where Our Lady revealed the 'Miraculous Medal' to St Catherine Labouré.

• Where the Virgin Mary, through St Bernadette, invited all who were sick to come in pilgrimage.

• Here, the Mother of God invited all to wear a scapular of the Sacred Heart in devotion to her Son.

• The Mother of God here asked for the rosary to be prayed daily, and for special devotions on the First Saturday of each month.

• The only shrine to St Vincent in Wales.

• The only shrine to St Pio in Wales.

• An ancient site where pilgrims came to bathe in its healing waters.

• This website promotes the annual pilgrimage to the place where St David Lewis was matrtyed in Monmouthshire.

• This website promotes the annual pilgrimage in honour of martyr St John Kemble.