The World’s Sacred Places

Sacred Places

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Ettal Abbey

Ettal, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany Christianity

Benedictine abbey founded in 1330, with a long Marian pilgrimage centered on a small white-marble devotional image.

Virgin Mary, Foundress of Ettal