Pilgrimage takes place again
Hundreds of residents took to the Johannesburg streets at 18:00 and completed an on-foot two-hour pilgrimage.
After two years of lockdown due to the Covid pandemic, the annual Fatima pilgrimage, hosted by the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Malvern East, Ekurhuleni, took place on May 14.
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Hundreds of residents took to the Johannesburg streets at 18:00 and completed an on-foot two-hour pilgrimage.
This year marks 30 years since the first pilgrimage, which took place in 1992 with only about 50 young people from the parish youth group at the time.
The pilgrimage celebrates the apparitions of the Mother of Jesus to three shepherd children in the hamlet of Fatima in Portugal.
The first of six apparitions took place on the May 13, 1917.
To mark the Fatima Marian apparitions, the Blessed Sacrament Parish in Malvern East, led by Parish priest Fr Andrew Knott OMI undertook a pilgrimage on foot.
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As departure from previous years, not only did St Joseph join the pilgrimage in the form of an additional statue, the route was different from previous pilgrimages.
This year the pilgrimage started at the church and concluded at the church with Holy Mass.
