Land of the Cross Tipped Churches
Triple V Pilgrimage
April 11, 2015 - Easter Saturday
It was a beautiful, sunny, spring day in April 2015 that the group did another pilgrimage within the Great State of Ohio! Our group visited again the Archdiocese of Cincinnati but this time, we were nowhere near Cincinnati but at the northern border of the Archdiocese - Darke, Auglize, Mercer and Shelby Counties. This area of the state is flat and one can easily see trees, silo farms and the crosses on top of the Catholic Churches in the area. The Land of the Cross Tipped Church is located in several cities and towns in the 4 county area and not all of them are located on one road (though there was a part of the pilgrimage that we stopped at 3-4 churches on one road and they were not even that far apart!) .
The above map shows the general area of where the pilgrimage site was. It was in a 4 County area in the northern most tip of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati or Western most border of the State of Ohio. You can see how far we travelled from Columbus.
Our pilgrimage started out in Piqua, OH with St. Boniface Catholic Church!
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This map shows Maria Stein, OH at the center of our Pilgrimage. It is located in Mercer Country. The churces we visited in Maria Stein are: St. Rose, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Sebastian - Marion Township area; St. John the Baptist and Maria Stein Relic Shrine/Convent in Maria Stein. The Shrine hosts the 2nd largest collection of Relics in the US!
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St. Remy Catholic Church, Russia, OH
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St. Denis and Holy Family Catholic Churches, Versailles, OH
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St. Nicholas Catholic Church Osgood, OH
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St. Joseph Catholic Church, Egypt, OH
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St. Augustine Catholic Church, Minster, OH
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St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church Fort Loramie, OH
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St. Peter and St. Wendelin Catholic Churches, Fort Recovery, OH by IN-OH border
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St. Bernard Catholic Church Burkettsville, OH
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St. Anthony Catholic Church, Washington Township, Mercer County, OH
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St. Sebastian Catholic Church Sebastian, OH
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St. Louis Catholic Church, North Star, OH
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Our last stop was mass at the beautiful and elegant Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Celina, OH. We ate at a famous diner by Lake Mercer off Lake Shore Drive. It was not a fanciful dining place but the food is always the talk of the parishioners at Immaculate Conception, so we gave it a try!
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