Traditionalist Pilgrimage: "Praying for Switzerland and reviving the faith"

The Catholic "Tradi" pilgrimage connects Fribourg with Notre-Dame des Marches in Broc today, September 27th, and tomorrow, September 28th. 260 people have registered, more than double the number from last year, the organizers are pleased to report.

The French traditionalists have the Notre-Dame de Chrétienté pilgrimage in Chartres, which is attended by approximately 20,000 pilgrims from all over the Beauce region. The French-speaking Swiss have Notre-Dame des Marches at the foot of the Fribourg Prealps.

Last year, "only" 125 participants

The Notre-Dame de la Foi association announces that 260 people have registered for the second traditionalist Catholic pilgrimage between Fribourg and Broc today, September 27th, and tomorrow, September 28th, reports the newspaper La Liberté. Last year's pilgrimage attracted 125 hikers.

This event, inspired by the French pilgrimage from Paris to Notre-Dame de Chartres, aims, according to the organizers, to "pray for Switzerland and revive the faith."

With Adoration Vigils

It combines hiking, overnight camping, and adoration vigils. Mass will be celebrated in Latin according to the Tridentine Rite before the Second Vatican Council, a "treasure preserved by the Church," as the organizers specify.

The starting point of this 42-kilometer hike is the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Fribourg, whose leadership the bishop has entrusted to the Priestly Fraternity of Saint-Pierre. This traditionalist association was founded in 1988 in Hauterive by members of the Fraternity of Saint Pie X d'Ecône, who refused to follow Bishop Lefebvre into schism.

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Cathcon: It can be argued that the very first Chartres pilgrimage of modern times was undertaken by just one person... Charles Péguy

"The spirituality of the Chartres pilgrimage was admirably interpreted by Charles Péguy's Prières dans la cathédrale: a spirituality made up of adoration of Mary Mother of God, but also a rediscovery of an interior space, a disposition of the soul that unfolds as one approaches the cathedral.

Charles PÉGUY is inextricably linked with the Chartres pilgrimage. He left a deep impression on several generations. By the end of the 19th century, pilgrims had returned en masse, filling every street in Chartres. Yet he is regarded as a kind of "refounder". Most of the great pilgrimages of the last hundred years have followed in his footsteps.

The story is astonishing... It began on 14 June 1912, when Charles Péguy undertook the pilgrimage to Chartres following a vow he had made the previous summer at the bedside of his sick son.

"Then, my friend, I realised that it was serious. I had to make a vow... I made a pilgrimage to Chartres. I'm a Beauceron. Chartres is my cathedral. I walked 144 kilometres in three days. (...) Dying in a ditch is nothing; really, I felt it was nothing. We are doing something more difficult".

After the poet's death in 1914, some of his friends followed his itinerary. They meditated on his poems, making memories."

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