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By ZENIT: Code: ZE06082120
Date: 2006-08-21
Gypsies on 50th Pilgrimage to Lourdes
LOURDES, France, AUG. 21, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The 50th pilgrimage of gypsies to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes is taking place through Friday with the participation of some 7,000 people.
The "children of the wind" arrived in Mary's city in some 1,300 caravans.
The first pilgrimage of this type took place Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 1957, as an initiative of the gypsies' national chaplains in France, assisted by the Nazarene Sisters of Charles de Foucauld.
About 1,500 people participated in that first pilgrimage. They were accompanied, among others, by Father Roger Etchegaray, then the Diocese of Bayonne's chaplain for gypsies.
Today and Tuesday, Cardinal Etchegaray, retired president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, was scheduled to preside over key moments of the pilgrimage. Amado
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It is great that these people feel it is Ok for them to visit shrines and go along with pride as their own people. I see they visit the Pope each year and I am told it is quiet touching the way they serenade HH and great him with such enthusiasm. It is great that these sisters travel along with the Gypsies with their convents on wheels.
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Originally posted by Pavel Ivanovich:
It is great that these people feel it is Ok for them to visit shrines and go along with pride as their own people. I see they visit the Pope each year and I am told it is quiet touching the way they serenade HH and great him with such enthusiasm. It is great that these sisters travel along with the Gypsies with their convents on wheels. I'm not long off the phone with Fr Peter in Lourdes He says that the gypsies' Pligrimage has been wonderful - caravans everywhere. They are all leaving this morning and the traffic seems to be at a total standstill -- there are apparently thousands of their caravans at present on the route de Pau and nothing can get through.
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