Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

The Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, formerly known as The Miraculous Medal Shrine, is at 500 E. Chelten Ave., in the East Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The church now known as the Basilica Shrine was completed by the Congregation of the Mission in 1879 as the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception on the grounds of St. Vincent's Seminary. In 1927, Fr. Joseph Skelly, CM, commissioned the creation of Mary's Central Shrine within the chapel to promote devotion to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, a title of the Virgin Mary originating with her apparitions to St. Catherine Labouré in Paris in 1830. On January 25, 2023, the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal (CAMM) announced that the Vatican's Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments had issued a decree dated Dec. 12, 2022, granting The Miraculous Medal Shrine (jointly the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception and Mary's Central Shrine within it), the title minor basilica. This precipitated the renaming of the church to The Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. The Basilica Shrine thus became the second minor basilica in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia after the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul and the 92nd minor basilica in the United States.

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