2024

MARIAN SHRINE OF POPENGUINE

Religious buildings

Built in 1887, the Basilica of Our Lady of Deliverance is one of the oldest in the country. It is an important place of Catholic pilgrimage (on the weekend of Pentecost) and testifies to the important presence of Catholicism on the Petite Côte. It houses a black Virgin who was blessed by Pope John Paul II in 1992. To accommodate the millions of pilgrims who celebrate Mary each year, a new shrine, of colossal size, should soon open its doors.

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