Pilgrimages

Absam Pilgrimage Basilica

On 17th January, 1797, the Virgin Mary appeared on a farmhouse window.
 
Vain attempts were made to discover what lay behind the image. On the insistence of the population, the miraculous image of the Virgin was moved to the right-hand side altar in the parish church.





Services in the pilgrimage church:
Mass on Sunday: On the preceding Saturday evening at 19.00 and 10.00 on Sunday
Mass on feast days: always 10.00
Rosary on Sunday and holidays always 14.00
Monthly pilgrimage (on the 1st Sunday in the month): 14.00 Rosary and pilgrims' mass
Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament: every Sacred Heart Friday 19.00 Mass and worship
Fatima devotions: always on the 13th of the month from 15.00 to 16.00
Services in the Eichat church: Sunday 9.00, Tuesday and Thursday 19.00

Apparition room
Absam was and continues to be an important place of pilgrimage. On several occasions during the 19th century, members of the Austrian imperial family came on a pilgrimage to pay their respects to the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary.

For many believers, "Maria Absam" is a place of solace and hope. The main St Mary's feast days are 17th January (Day of the Apparition of the Mother of God) and 24th June (St John's Day, the church's second patron saint – when the villagers remember the transfer of the miraculous image to the parish church).