A so-called live rosary pilgrimage around Budapest is held on Saturday. Devotees praying for Hungary and the capital will start from five locations and cover a total of 180 kilometers.
The pilgrimage, which consists of nine stages, ends with a holy mass at five points.
Cardinal Péter Erdő, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, will present the Holy Mass at seven o'clock in the evening at the end of Máriaremet, in the Basilica of Our Lady of Máriaremet, Csaba János Tóth, the archdiocese's press officer, told MTI.
Due to the epidemic regulations, the organizers request that instead of the usual group pilgrimage, this year the faithful set off individually.
The nine different routes touch parishes and places of worship on the outskirts of the city, each section is about twenty kilometers long.
Pilgrims go from Máriabesnyő (Gödöllő) to Kerepes and Fót, from Csillaghegy (3rd district) to Fót and Máriaremeté, from Farkasrét (XIIth district) to Máriaremeté and Nagytétény, from Soroksár (XXIIIth district) to Nagytétény and Pestszentlőrinc, and from Rákoskeresztúr (XVIIth district) to Pestszentlőrinc and They go to Kerepes.
MTI
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