Day: 6. September 2015

Pilgrimage to Czestochowa

My name is Alejandra and I am from Guatemala. I am a novice and, for the moment, living in Krakow for my apostolic experience with three sisters, Ania from Poland, Anne Denise from France and Victoria from Egypt. I have been in Krakow since July 3rd 2015 and I will be here for five months. I would like to share my experience of the pilgrimage to Czestochowa, two hundred kilometers from Krakow. This pilgrimage is organized in Krakow by the Dominican Priests who started it 24 years ago. Two thousand people were walking, in groups of two hundred, young people, handicapped, families and children. This seven days pilgrimage started on Monday 3rd and finished on Sunday 9th, August 2015. We walked 30 kilometers a day. Why did I go on this pilgrimage? I went on it because sister Ania invited us. The first day was not very tiring but the second and the third were very hard because as it is not so easy to walk 30 kilometers with 37 degrees of temperature. I said …