Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos/Footprints

Footprints for Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos are tour-depth life-trace places — walkable stops, shrines, and mission sites for pilgrimage maps. They are not a second copy of the five infobox significant locations, and not every church dedicated to this person. Full catalog: Footprints · trails: Tour Regional Trails · nearby: NearMe. This tour: 7 stop(s) stored in Cargo VisitAccess: Public = open to pilgrims · Limited = hours/appointment or exterior · Private / Unknown = do not treat as a tourist stop. Prefer a real source URL before marking Public. Editors: Add or edit stops with form · Form help · Template fields Please keep life-trace scope (Footprints / lab SCOPE). A later fact-pack re-publish may overwrite form edits unless the YAML pack is updated too.

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Footprints

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• St. Mary's Assumption Church (upper church) (Redemptorist mission) [Public] Parish – 2030 Constance Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
  • Year: 1866
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of New Orleans
  • Historic German Catholic Redemptorist parish church of Seelos’s final assignment. Pair shrine lower areas with the church building as two campus stops in the Irish Channel / Lower Garden District edge.
  • Sources: https://seelos.org/

• National Shrine of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos (New Orleans) (Redemptorist mission & death) [Public] Shrine – 919 Josephine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
  • Year: 1867
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of New Orleans
  • National shrine at the St. Mary’s Assumption complex where Seelos served and died (yellow fever ministry). Tomb, shrine church space, and gift shop — primary public pilgrimage hub for the cause.
  • Sources: https://seelos.org/

• St. Mary’s Assumption (New Orleans) – shrine of Bl. Seelos (Final pastorate, death & shrine) [Public] Shrine – 2030 Constance Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
  • Year: 1867
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of New Orleans
  • Redemptorist church and National Shrine of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, where he ministered during the yellow fever epidemic and is entombed. Primary public New Orleans pin.
  • Sources: https://seelos.org/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier_Seelos

• Seelos Center museum / Walk of Life exhibits (Legacy) [Public] Other – 919 Josephine Street (Seelos Center / museum), New Orleans, LA 70130, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
  • Year: 2000
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of New Orleans
  • Shrine museum and Walk of Life exhibits interpreting Seelos’s Bavarian roots, Redemptorist missions, confessional ministry, and New Orleans death. Building-level campus stop paired with the upper church.
  • Sources: https://seelos.org/; https://seelos.org/biography/

• Former St. Philomena Church site (Liberty & 14th, Strip District) (Missionary priesthood) [Limited] Parish – Liberty Avenue at 14th Street (historic site), Pittsburgh, PA 15222, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Year: 1845
  • Diocese: Diocese of Pittsburgh
  • First US assignment — Seelos served as assistant at St. Philomena’s under St. John Neumann. Original German Redemptorist church stood at Liberty & 14th in the Strip District; building sold (1920s). Exterior/historical pin only.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Philomena%27s_Church_(Pittsburgh); https://seelos.org/timeline/redemptorists-settle-in-pittsburgh/

• National Shrine of St. Alphonsus Liguori (Baltimore) – Seelos pastorate (Redemptorist pastorate) [Public] Church – 114 West Saratoga Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • Year: 1854
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Baltimore
  • Historic downtown Baltimore Redemptorist church where Seelos served as pastor (1854–1857) after Pittsburgh — same parish earlier associated with St. John Neumann. Public urban stop on a Mid-Atlantic Redemptorist trail.
  • Sources: https://stalphonsusbalt.org/; https://seelos.org/biography/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier_Seelos

• Shrine of Saints Peter and Paul (Cumberland) – formation years (Formation of Redemptorists) [Public] Church – 125 Fayette Street, Cumberland, MD 21502, Cumberland, Maryland, United States
  • Year: 1857
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Baltimore
  • Western Maryland Redemptorist church where Seelos served as pastor and prefect of students (from 1857). Historic public parish/shrine stop between Baltimore and the Appalachian corridor.
  • Sources: https://www.olmcumberland.org/the-shrine-of-ss-peter-and-paul/; https://www.friendsoftheshrine.com/about-us; https://seelos.org/biography/