Würzburg (dpa / lby) - Würzburg Bishop Franz Jung made the pilgrimage to Kreuzberg "overjoyed, slightly damaged and richly gifted". He said this on Wednesday when the pilgrims returned from the five-day pilgrimage, during which they had walked almost 180 kilometers.
Bishop Jung was there for the first time. He carried the men's cross on the last stage to St. Kilian's Cathedral, where the final prayer was celebrated. "You really only make it in a group that pulls you and encourages you from station to station. That was very nice," said Jung. However, almost all the pilgrims got blisters because their shoes were so wet on the first day after a violent storm.
After two years of a corona-related break, the Kreuzberg pilgrimage could take place again this year as usual, it started on Saturday. In 1647, members of the "Brotherhood of the Holy Cross in Würzburg" made a pilgrimage to the Kreuzberg, whose summit is 928 meters high. Devotions and masses are celebrated in different places along the way.
