Guide by Cell

“Guide by Cell” at St. John Neumann Shrine is a guided audio tour available on your own cell phone. To take the tour, dial 215-866-1971 and use your phone—whether you’re at home or at the Shrine—to learn more about the Shrine.

While you’re on the phone, enter any item number from the list below, and you’ll hear a brief description given by one of our Redemptorist priests. Often people tour the Shrine and then refresh their memory of the visit by listening to the “Guide By Cell” tour at home.

 

Upper Church

1. Welcome
2. History of the upper church
3. Redemptorist saints
4. Stained-glass windows
5. Paintings
6. Stations of the Cross
7. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel
8. The reliquary
9. The altar
10. The organ

Shrine

11. History of the lower church/Shrine
12. The crypt of St. John Neumann
13. The miracles
14. Eva’s miracle
15. Kent’s miracle
16. Michael’s miracle
17. Mosaic of St. John Neumann
18. Our Mother of Perpetual Help Mosaic

St. John Neumann Windows

19. Baptism
20. Missionary vocation and coming to America
21. First Mass and frontier priest
22. At home with the poor and the Indians
23. First Redemptorist to profess vows in the U.S. missionary, Bl. Francis Seelos
24. Fourth bishop of Philadelphia
25. Religious communities
26. Death
27. Declared venerable and his canonization
28. Catholic education
29. Katharine Drexel
30. John Paul II

Atrium

34. Timber frame
35. The fountain
36. The skylight, windowpanes, plants and natural stone
37. The copper holy water font
38. The reliquary
39. The St. Alphonsus Liguori statue
40. The St. John Neumann statue
41. The healing of the paralytic stained glass
42. The Assumption of the B.V.M stained glass
43. Coat of arms stained glass
44. The School Sisters of Notre Dame stained glass

Thank you for taking the time to listen to our “Guide by Cell” tour. We hope you enjoyed it, and we invite you to make a pilgrimage to the Shrine, “Where prayers are answered!”