USA: Horseback pilgrimage celebrates heritage and faith

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Source: Chicago Catholic

Michelle Martin writes in the Chicago Catholic: More than 900 people on horseback gathered in the Cook County Forest Preserve along the Des Plaines River south of Dundee Road on 7 December to make their way along the forest preserve bridal path to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines, Illinois, a journey of more than five miles.

They came to celebrate their Mexican heritage and to ask the intercession of and give thanks to Our Lady of Guadalupe. The annual horseback pilgrimage, organized by Club Los Vaqueros Unidos (United Cowboys Club) of Wadsworth, is one of several pilgrimages leading up to the Dec. 12 feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Father Esequiel Sanchez, rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, led the procession, along with riders bearing the US and Mexican flags, a banner with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the banner of the shrine itself.

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