Venerable Pierre Toussaint/Footprints

Footprints for Venerable Pierre Toussaint 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

Main article: Footprints

• St. Peter’s Barclay Street – early New York Catholic life (Faith & charity) [Public] Church – 22 Barclay Street, New York, NY 10007, New York City, New York, United States
  • Year: 1800
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of New York
  • Historic downtown parish of Toussaint’s New York Catholic life (shared landscape with Elizabeth Ann Seton). Public church.
  • Sources: https://spcolr.org/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Toussaint

• St. Patrick's Old Cathedral crypt association (burial transfer) (Death & legacy) [Public] Church – 263 Mulberry Street, New York, NY 10012, New York City, New York, United States
  • Year: 1853
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of New York
  • Pierre Toussaint was interred at Old St. Patrick's before transfer to the crypt of the new St. Patrick's Cathedral. Historic Mulberry Street cathedral is a public downtown stop on a Toussaint walking itinerary.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Toussaint; https://saintpatrickscathedral.org/

• St. Patrick's Cathedral crypt (modern tomb) (Legacy) [Public] Church – 5th Avenue at 50th Street, New York, NY 10022, New York City, New York, United States
  • Year: 1990
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of New York
  • Remains of Venerable Pierre Toussaint rest in the crypt of St. Patrick's Cathedral — the first layperson so honored there. Primary Midtown pilgrimage pin.
  • Sources: https://saintpatrickscathedral.org/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Toussaint

• Saint Peter's Church Barclay Street (early Catholic life) (Faith & charity) [Public] Church – 22 Barclay Street, New York, NY 10007, New York City, New York, United States
  • Year: 1800
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of New York
  • Historic Catholic parish of early New York associated with Toussaint’s sacramental and charitable life in the city — shared downtown hub with other early NY Catholic footprints.
  • Sources: https://spcolr.org/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Toussaint

• Lower Manhattan free Black Catholic / hairdressing world (Workplace & charity) [Limited] Workplace – Lower Manhattan historic district, New York, NY, New York City, New York, United States
  • Year: 1810
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of New York
  • Toussaint worked as a hairdresser to elite New Yorkers and funded orphanages, schools, and charity for the poor. Limited district pin — interpret via cathedral exhibits and biographies rather than a private shop address.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Toussaint

• St. Vincent de Paul / downtown charity orphanage landscape (Charity works) [Limited] Other – Lower Manhattan / SoHo historic charity district, New York, NY, New York City, New York, United States
  • Year: 1820
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of New York
  • Toussaint funded orphanages, schools, and relief for the poor and for refugees — including support associated with Catholic charitable institutions of early New York. Limited district pin; interpret via biographies and cathedral exhibits rather than a single surviving orphanage door.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Toussaint; https://saintpatrickscathedral.org/

• Saint-Marc / Haiti birth & enslavement region association (Childhood) [Limited] Outdoor – Saint-Marc region, Haiti (historic Bérard plantation area), Saint-Marc, Artibonite, Haiti
  • Year: 1766
  • Diocese: Diocese of Gonaïves
  • Birth region of Pierre Toussaint in colonial Saint-Domingue before the Bérard family’s move to New York. Limited historical geography for complete life trail — NYC crypts remain the public pilgrimage focus.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Toussaint