PRESERVING SACRED PLACES
Through encounter and film
From the book Walk the Pilgrim’s Path
Exploring Sacred Sites, History, and Living Tradition
Sacred Travels brings people into meaningful encounters with sacred places across St. Louis and the Midwest. Through guided visits to historic churches, shrines, grottos, and devotional landmarks, travelers discover the stories, traditions, and communities that have shaped these sites across generations.
Discover the sacred places of the Midwest through guided encounters, storytelling, and film. Many journeys are inspired by the discoveries shared in Jeanette McDermott's book Walk the Pilgrim’s Path, and each visit contributes to a growing effort to document and preserve these places for future generations.
Paths We Have Walked
Sacred Travels is building a growing archive of the sacred places we visit. Each completed site includes a brief record, photographs, and film documentation.
Documenting Sacred Places
Every Sacred Travels journey is documented through photography and film. These recordings serve as a lasting record of the sacred sites we visit and the communities that care for them.
Each film captures the history of the site, the voices of its caretakers, and the experience of those who walk it. Film allows a single day of encounter to become a lasting record.
Voices from the Path
Reflections from those who have encountered the sacred places explored through Sacred Travels and Walk the Pilgrim’s Path.
Thank you for putting together the pilgrimage. I loved everything about it. I’m looking forward to the next pilgrimage to continue to deepen both my faith and knowledge of our incredible St. Louis Catholic community.
I hope this pilgrimage will alert people to the need to preserve the beautiful work that has been done here. Too often, places like this get forgotten, and the sites are not kept up and preserved.
I felt truly blessed by the entire pilgrimage experience. God does continue to bless us, everyone.