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Steps on the Guadalupe Pilgrimage to DesPlaines

Photo editor Karen Callaway spent the last four years documenting the eve of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe from groups leaving their parishes and making the pilgrimage to the shrine in Des Plaines and back to their parishes again. This slideshow shows what goes on through the night during a pilgrimage that draws tens of thousands of people each year.

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Analley Gaeta, Andhernery Marquez, Cynthia Alcazar, Saudel Tilape, Yessica Cirilo, Guerrimo Juarez and Omar Gomez from St. Gall Parish are welcomed by parishioners after they traveled from the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines on Dec. 11, the eve of feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The young adults are wearing white name tags bearing the names of people they are praying for.

Photo: Karen Callaway / Catholic New World