Around 200 pilgrims will arrive in Knock today at the end of the annual five-day Cursillo walk from Derry.
They will be joined at the National Shrine by hundreds of other pilgrims from Belfast, Dublin and Cork.
The Derry pilgrimage was led by Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown who celebrated Mass in Termonbacca before blessing those taking part ahead of their 132-mile walk.
Cursillo is a lay movement which originated on the Spanish island of Majorca and came to Ireland in the 1960s.
The word ‘cursillo’ is Spanish for short course.
The movement was set up by laymen in the mid 1940s by a group of young men who recognised that, following World War II, there was a need to bring people, especially men, back to the Church and to renew and recharge the faith of those who still attended.
They recognised that there was an urgent need to re-Christianise a world that was slipping further from the teachings of Christ.
After extensive study and a lot of prayer, they devised a a course on how to live as a Christian with all the difficult realities of modern life.
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