Saint Anna's farewell is held on Saturday, Sunday and next Wednesday at the shrine in Mátraverébély-Szentkút. world day too - informed MTI the press chief of the farewell place in Nógrád county.

Regina Kerekes-Dancsok said: on the occasion of the three-day holiday

about 500 pilgrims on foot arrive at the national shrine.

On the Saturday of Farewell, pilgrims are received from half past eight in the morning, after the Masses and the sung Maria greetings, Maria Radio broadcasts the prayer for the nation from 8 pm. After the evening vigil, the devotion of the Way of the Cross begins at 11 p.m., and the last Holy Mass is celebrated at midnight.

On Sunday, the catechesis will talk about the morality of the passions, after the Holy Mass and the litany, the pilgrims and their objects of grace will be blessed before the vespers, the common evening prayer.

On Wednesday, the day of farewell, the grandparents and grandchildren are blessed at the morning mass.

At the big farewell, a blood donation is also organized in Szentkút.

MTI

Front page image: Illustration / An outdoor altar decorated with flowers during the Lord's Day Mass at the national shrine in Mátraverébély-Szentkút on June 14, 2020. MTI/Péter Komka