A 50-mile, 2-day pilgrimage of thanksgiving will be made from the Mission of  St. Isidore the Farmer near Watkins, CO to the Mother Cabrini Shrine located  west of Golden, CO, August 24 - 25. This is the sixth pilgrimage being made  in thanksgiving for the 1999 intercession of Mother Cabrini to assure the  successful 2001 completion of the massive $2.3 million St. Isidore facility. 
Parishioners will push a 5' high statue of Mother Cabrini, mounted on a  small cart, along the pilgrimage route in order to demonstrate the benefit  of the saints patronage in the completion of the church. About 60 to 100 Pilgrims are expected to participate.

The first day of the pilgrimage will begin following a 5:00 a.m. Friday Mass, and conclude 28 miles later in the vicinity of I-70 & Federal,  the site of Mother Cabrini's Denver home and orphanage. The next day will  begin at 7:00 a.m. and finish at the Statue of the Sacred Heart located at  the top of the mountain above the Cabrini Shrine at about 5:00 p.m. Fr. Joseph Lester, a Catholic priest, will celebrate a Catholic Latin Tridentine High Mass at 6:00 p.m. near the gates to the Cabrini Shrine.

A similar Pilgrimage was completed in June 2002, but was marred when the  Denver Archdiocese refused to allow the Catholic Latin Tridentine Mass to be  celebrated on the grounds of the Cabrini Shrine. There have been  Theological disagreements between Rome and the Society of St. Pius the Tenth  (SSPX), since 1988 when its founder consecrated four Bishops without Rome's permission. A turning point toward healing the rift occurred in 2000 when Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, head of the Pontifical Commission, greeted three SSPX Bishops as "my fellow Catholic Bishops" during a Pilgrimage to Rome attended by 5000 supporters. The St. Isidore Pilgrims will pray many Rosaries during the 50-mile journey that the Archdiocese will allow Fr. Lester to celebrate the Latin Tridentine Mass on  the grounds of the Shrine.

The Priests of the Priestly Fraternity of the Society of St. Pius Tenth  (SSPX) is an international Catholic religious order founded by the  late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970 with the permission of the Bishop of  Lausanne, Geneva, and Fribourg, Switzerland. The SSPX is dedicated to the preservation of the traditional Catholic faith, especially through the Tridentine (Latin) Mass, and the teaching of the Catholic faith as professed by the doctors of the Catholic Church over the past 2,000 years. For more information about St. Isidore, visit