We invite you to join us on an eight day pilgrimage from Holy Rosary Church, in Milton to the Martyr's Shrine in Midland. Our main purpose for walking as a group is to ask God's forgiveness on behalf of mankind for the sin of abortion. Pilgrims are also encouraged to pray for their own special intentions during this journey.

Pope John Paul II comes from a strong tradition of pilgrimages. Every year, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from every part of Poland and adjacent countries walk to the shrine of the Black Madonna in Czestochowa, the patroness of Poland, for the feast of the Assumption on August 15. During his visit to Canada in 1984, he called on Canadians to make Pilgrimages to their holy places.

Since 1982, the Polish community of Toronto has been walking to the Martys' Shrine. The first English speaking pilgrimage to Midland was organized in 1984 in Kitchener. Since then other groups have been formed; and at different points along the route, these groups join with the pilgrimage as it makes its way toward Midland.