'It's a pilgrimage to become closer with my faith, and a version of the Camino de Santiago that's been walked for centuries across Spain,' the 31-year-old said. 'Please pray that God gives me the strength to finish!'
On September 30, 2023, the Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph will lead a Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, near the campus of the Catholic University of America.
'Pilgrimages are a wonderful, lost part of traditional Catholicism, and their beauty is a great tool of evangelization,' said Noah Peters of the Arlington Latin Mass Society.
LifeSite’s John-Henry Westen described the three-day walking pilgrimage as 'an experience of uniting ourselves with the saints of old and sufferings of Christ on the cross.'
The mothers said they wished 'to lay at the feet of the Holy Father the supplication of all the faithful who live the faith of the Tridentine rite and in the full communion of the Church.'
Six groups of ten pilgrims 'relayed' from Paris to Chartres from the Vigil of Pentecost to Pentecost Monday, with virtual 'pilgrims' joining them from online.