{"id":23072,"date":"2026-03-06T09:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scsc-ingenbohl.org\/?p=23072"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:53:31","slug":"maria-bildstein-benken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scsc-ingenbohl.org\/en\/maria-bildstein-benken\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Bildstein, Benken"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Maria Bildstein is a Marian pilgrimage place on the Benkner B\u00fcchel near Benken in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It has a pilgrimage church, a Calvary hill, a picture gallery, a priest&#8217;s house and numerous grottos and chapels. The Sisters of the Holy Cross have been working here in Maria Bildstein for about 15 years, living in the former priest&#8217;s house and serving as the first contact persons.<br \/>\nSr. Erasmus also gives courses in icon painting and Sr. Dominique travels to the Bad Ragaz holiday home three days a week to cook.<br \/>\nThe Maria Bildstein pilgrimage Centre is run by a private church foundation in Benken, which employs the two sisters and pays their salaries.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_gallery type=&#8221;image_grid&#8221; images=&#8221;23048,23050,23052,23054,23056,23058,23060,23062,23064,23066,23068,23070&#8243; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilgrimage Place Maria Bildstein <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en","category-visitations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scsc-ingenbohl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scsc-ingenbohl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scsc-ingenbohl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scsc-ingenbohl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scsc-ingenbohl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scsc-ingenbohl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scsc-ingenbohl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scsc-ingenbohl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scsc-ingenbohl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}