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When you enter the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of the Catholic University of America, you have the impression that you are not in the US, but in Ravenna, Italy. Dedicated to the patroness of the United States, this basilica located in the capital of the country, Washington, DC, is also the largest Catholic church in the United States, and one of the ten largest Catholic churches in the whole world.