The 44th annual traditional pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres brought together some 20,000 pilgrims over the Pentecost weekend, May 23-25 for a 60-mile walk centred on the theme of “the mission.” On May 25, a public holiday in France, US Cardinal Raymond L. Burke celebrated the closing Mass in the thousand-year-old Chartres Cathedral. Organised by…
Chartres pilgrimage grows as organisers warn against renewed traditionalist divisions
Catholics walk in an annual traditional Catholic Pentecost pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres, May 27-29, 2023. Photo: OSV News/courtesy Notre-Dame de Chrétienté.