Blessed James Miller/Footprints

Footprints for Blessed James Miller 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. Martin Cemetery (Ellis) – grave of Blessed James Miller (Death & burial) [Public] Cemetery – St. Martin Cemetery, Ellis (near Highway 66 / Custer), WI, Ellis, Wisconsin, United States
  • Year: 1982
  • Diocese: Diocese of La Crosse
  • Burial place of Brother James Miller, FSC, after his 1982 martyrdom in Guatemala. Primary Wisconsin pilgrimage pin along Highway 66 between Stevens Point and Rosholt.
  • Sources: https://catholiclife.diolc.org/2024/04/26/blessed-brother-james-miller/; https://diolc.org/social-concerns/blessed-brother-james-miller/

• Sacred Heart Church (Polonia / Custer) – funeral Mass parish (Death & legacy) [Public] Parish – 7379 Church Street, Custer, WI 54423, Custer, Wisconsin, United States
  • Year: 1982
  • Diocese: Diocese of La Crosse
  • Sacred Heart Parish hosted Brother James’s Wisconsin funeral Mass (18 Feb 1982) and remains a local center of devotion, including Blessed Brother James Miller Day.
  • Sources: https://www.sacredheartpolonia.com/brothermiller; https://diolc.org/social-concerns/blessed-brother-james-miller/

• Casa Indígena / Huehuetenango Christian Brothers school (martyrdom site) (Missionary martyrdom) [Limited] School – Huehuetenango, Guatemala (Christian Brothers mission school association), Huehuetenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
  • Year: 1982
  • Diocese: Diocese of Huehuetenango
  • Mission school landscape where Brother James Miller was shot (13 Feb 1982) while repairing a wall — martyred defending Indigenous students. Limited security/travel judgment; exact campus markers vary — honor primarily via Wisconsin pilgrimage and Lasallian cause resources.
  • Sources: https://www.lasalle.org/; https://diolc.org/social-concerns/blessed-brother-james-miller/

• Ellis / Stevens Point farm childhood landscape (Childhood) [Limited] Outdoor – Ellis / Polonia farm country, Portage County, WI, Ellis, Wisconsin, United States
  • Year: 1944
  • Diocese: Diocese of La Crosse
  • Rural farm childhood of James Miller before Christian Brothers life. Limited private farm landscape — prefer St. Martin Cemetery and Sacred Heart for public stops.
  • Sources: https://diolc.org/social-concerns/blessed-brother-james-miller/

• Pacelli High School association (Stevens Point) (Formation & local memory) [Limited] School – Stevens Point, WI (Pacelli Catholic Schools landscape), Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States
  • Year: 1962
  • Diocese: Diocese of La Crosse
  • Local Catholic high-school / diocesan education landscape of the Stevens Point area that forms the community memory of Brother James. Limited active school; pair with Ellis cemetery for a Portage County day.
  • Sources: https://diolc.org/social-concerns/blessed-brother-james-miller/

• Cretin-Derham Hall (Saint Paul) – Christian Brothers teaching years (Teaching ministry) [Limited] School – 550 South Albert Street, Saint Paul, MN 55116, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
  • Year: 1970
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
  • US teaching years with the De La Salle Christian Brothers before Central American mission. Active school — exterior only.
  • Sources: https://www.lasalle.org/

• Cathedral of La Crosse / diocesan cause association (Legacy) [Public] Church – 360 Main Street, La Crosse, WI 54601, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States
  • Year: 2019
  • Diocese: Diocese of La Crosse
  • Mother church of the Diocese of La Crosse, which promotes Brother James’s cause and local devotion. Public cathedral stop for diocesan pilgrims who cannot reach Ellis.
  • Sources: https://diolc.org/; https://diolc.org/social-concerns/blessed-brother-james-miller/