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.
Crutches, believed to be left by those who prayed for miracles and received them, lay near the entrance of the ressurection grotto at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine at Maryville Academy in Des Plaines in 2005. Thousands come every Sunday and about 100,000 come to observe the Dec. 12 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and its surrounding festivities. (2005)
Photo: Karen Callaway / Catholic New World