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| New York City is famous for its many great Churches AND religious shrines. |
St. Frances Cabrini Chapel houses the most precious remains of the first US citizen to be canonized a saint. The Cloisters contain some of the great art and architecture of the Middle Ages, when Christians in Europe were united. The intense Gothic architecture of St. Patrick’s Cathedral stands out in all its magnificent splendor against the skyscrapers of modern midtown Manhattan. St. Francis Church and St. John the Baptist Church are beautiful, historical churches where faithful, hard working Catholics have attended Mass for over one-hundred years. St. Vincent Ferrer Church has been called one of the fifty most beautiful churches in the country. Designed at the time when Gothic Revival was at its peak, this fine church houses the relics of many saints.
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St. Frances Cabrini Shrine
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| Visit the shrine honoring the first US citizen to be canonized. The final resting place of St. Frances Cabrinin. Her body is glass enclosed underneath the altar in the chapel. Diplay of personal effects |
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The Capuchin Friars
-Beautiful, historical church built in 1870
-Relics and shrine to Padre Pio
-Beautiful statues and Stations of the Cross. |
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St. Vincent Ferrer Church
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The Dominican Friars
Magnificent French Gothic church. Stained glass windows designed by Charles Connick. |
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Revisit a time when Christians in Europe were united and expressed their love for God in magnificent art and architecture
-Original medieval chapels and monastic cloisters from the 12th to the 15th centuries.
-Unicorn Tapestries, frescoes, stained glass, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts and altar pieces.
-Over two hundred species of plants grown in the Middle Ages in the flower and herb gardens. |
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The seat of the Archdiocese of New York.
-Highlights: the Lady Chapel, the great rose window designed by Charles Connick, the Stations of the Cross& the Pieta.
-The largest cathedral in the United States.
-Construction began 1879. |
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The Franciscan Friars
-Beautiful, historical church (circa 1891) and one of the busiest in the nation
-Several shrines to Our Lady
-Shrines to Saints Francis, Anthony, Jude, Joseph and Monica. |
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| Known as the patroness of immgrants, Frances Cabrini was born in Italy in 1850. At the request of herBishop , she founded the missionary Sisters of the Sacred Hearth. In 1889, at the urging of pope Leo XIII, she left with six nuns for the United States to work among the Italian immigrants. For the next quarter of a century, Mother Cabrini founded schools, hospitals and orphanages throughoutthe United States. She died in Chicago in 1917. Les than thirty years later she was canonized a saint by Pope Pius XIII, the first American citizen to be honored. |
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