TULSA, Okla. — Hundreds of people gathered for a yearly pilgrimage and prayer walk from Claremore to east Tulsa.
St. Thomas More Catholic Church held their fourth consecutive pilgrimage from Claremore to their church, near 27th and 129th, letting people express their faith and share Mexican culture.
“It’s a pilgrimage that we do, and we’ve been doing it for four years now. It’s a walk but it’s a way for people to express their faith and their devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary,” said Denny Rodriguez, church staff member with St. Thomas More Catholic Church.
Rodriguez said this week in Mexico, people from all over the country take a pilgrimage to an image of the Virgin Mary. The walk in Green Country lets people who can’t go to Mexico express their faith and feel closer to Mexico.
But, Rodriguez said today’s pilgrimage isn’t just about Mexican culture.
“It’s not just a heritage in all the Catholic Church there’s many pilgrimages for many different places that visit different shrines. So, pilgrimages is not just something we do in Mexico but it’s something that the Catholic Church does and it reminds us that in our life we’re going to have struggles but our goal at the end of the day is to get to Heaven,” Rodriguez said.