Why did a record number of people go on this year’s Paris to Chartres pilgrimage? And why were so many of the estimated 18,000 - 20,000 pilgrims who made the journey so young?
The pilgrimage is devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass and over Pentecost weekend and Whit Monday each year – 18-20 May this year – pilgrims walk around 60 miles from Paris to the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres.
We live in an age where church attendance across the Western world is declining. And yet, 2023’s record number of 16,000 pilgrims, whose average age was just over 20 years old, was broken by the even higher attendance this year.
