Travel & Pilgrimage

With lavishly-endowed basilicas, coach loads of tourists and pilgrims swarming around the saint's tomb, Assisi is in many ways a money-making machine that any modern pilgrim site tends to be nowadays

'I would like to visit the Marian shrine of Caacupé, which Pope Francis declared a minor basilica after he said Mass there in 2015. Our Lady is revered there as "Our Lady of Miracles" following several inexplicable healings at her intercession. The shrine is one of the most popular and important pilgrimage destinations in South America'

The intention of the pilgrimage has remained the same over the years: the conversion of England

The great period of Burgundian church building commenced in the late 10th century and lasted until the end of the 12th century