National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

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 National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
 
Washington DC Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the largest Roman Catholic church in the Western Hemisphere, has become a spiritual home to hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who journey there each year from every state and many foreign lands.

Together, they symbolize the Church‘s catholicity - its universal nature. It is synonymous with the story of 20th-century Catholicism in the United States. Each of the more than 60 chapels and oratories represents some history of the multi-ethnic community that comprises the universal Church. The National Shrine is liter...


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