Saint John Neumann/Footprints

Footprints for Saint John Neumann 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: 8 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. Peter the Apostle Church (upper church) (Episcopal ministry & death) [Public] Parish – 1019 North 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Year: 1842
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  • Redemptorist parish church above the Neumann shrine. Historic base of Redemptorist life in Philadelphia and the architectural shell of the national shrine complex — natural pair with the lower-church tomb for a single walking stop.
  • Sources: https://www.stjohnneumann.org/

• National Shrine of Saint John Neumann (lower church / tomb) (Episcopal ministry & death) [Public] Shrine – 1019 North 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Year: 1860
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  • Beneath St. Peter the Apostle Church at 5th and Girard, the National Shrine holds the remains of St. John Neumann, Redemptorist and fourth Bishop of Philadelphia. Primary public pilgrimage stop; shrine, museum, and gift shop hours published by the shrine.
  • Sources: https://www.stjohnneumann.org/; https://www.stjohnneumann.org/about-st-john-neumann

• St. Louis Church (Buffalo) – early missionary association (Missionary priesthood) [Public] Church – 35 Edward Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, Buffalo, New York, United States
  • Year: 1836
  • Diocese: Diocese of Buffalo
  • Historic German Catholic mother church in Buffalo associated with the immigrant corridor Neumann served as a young missionary priest in western New York. Public parish landmark for the Niagara-region segment of a Neumann trail.
  • Sources: https://www.stjohnneumann.org/about-st-john-neumann; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Neumann

• Former St. Philomena Church site (Liberty & 14th) – Redemptorist pastorate (Missionary priesthood) [Limited] Parish – Liberty Avenue at 14th Street (historic site), Pittsburgh, PA 15222, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Year: 1840
  • Diocese: Diocese of Pittsburgh
  • Neumann was pastor of St. Philomena's (Strip District) and built the church at Liberty Avenue and 14th Street; Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos later served here as assistant. Historic site only — original building sold in the 1920s.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Philomena%27s_Church_(Pittsburgh); https://www.stjohnneumann.org/about-st-john-neumann; https://pghshrines.org/history-st-stanislaus

• Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (Philadelphia) (Episcopal ministry) [Public] Church – 1723 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Year: 1852
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  • Mother church of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Neumann served as bishop here (1852–1860), organizing parochial schools and immigrant care. Public cathedral stop that pairs with the Girard Avenue shrine on a same-day Philadelphia tour.
  • Sources: https://cathedralphila.org/; https://www.stjohnneumann.org/about-st-john-neumann

• National Shrine of Saint John Neumann Museum (Episcopal ministry & legacy) [Public] Shrine – 1019 North 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Year: 1860
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  • On-site museum interpreting Neumann's immigrant priesthood, Redemptorist mission, parish and school founding, and service as Bishop of Philadelphia. Complements prayer at the tomb for a full shrine visit.
  • Sources: https://www.stjohnneumann.org/museum-1

• Bohemia Manor / Maryland first Masses association (Missionary priesthood) [Limited] Outdoor – Cecil County / Bohemia area, MD (historic mission landscape), Warwick, Maryland, United States
  • Year: 1836
  • Diocese: Diocese of Wilmington
  • Neumann's first U.S. missionary labors included rural Maryland/New York circuits. Limited landscape context — use shrine biographies rather than inventing a farmhouse pin.
  • Sources: https://www.stjohnneumann.org/about-st-john-neumann; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Neumann

• St. Alphonsus Church association (Philadelphia Redemptorist network) (Episcopal ministry) [Public] Parish – 1429 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19130, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Year: 1853
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  • Historic Redemptorist / German Catholic parish network stop in Philadelphia that frames Neumann's school-founding and immigrant pastoral years beyond the Girard Avenue shrine campus.
  • Sources: https://www.stjohnneumann.org/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Neumann