“We will express the variety of our cultures, we will show the liveliness of our faith based on our common roots, able to overcome any border and any barrier”. With these words, the archbishop of Udine, mgr. Pietro Brollo, describes the meaning of the 27th “pilgrimage of the three peoples”, due on Saturday August 29th in Udine. It is an initiative that concerns pilgrims from the Italian dioceses of Udine and Gorizia, the Slovenian dioceses of Ljubljana, Maribor and Capodistria, and the Austrian dioceses of Klagenfurt and Graz. Every year, one of these three dioceses hosts the pilgrims: this year, it is the turn of the archdiocese of Udine; the destination of the pilgrimage is the basilica of Piazza Primo Maggio, “under the loving glance of the Virgin of the Graces in the shrine that has been faithfully guarded by the Servants of Mary for as many as 530 years”, mgr. Brollo points out. The date of August 29th, explains the archbishop in his message to the priests and devotees of the Region Fiuli and published on the latest issue of the diocesan weekly magazine “La Vita Cattolica”, has been chosen “to cater to the needs of the dioceses of Slovenia, which have an important ecclesial meeting before that date. So, as every year, we will find ourselves joining our sister churches of Gurk-Klagenfurt and Ljubljana, to live this new gathering of prayer, friendship and fraternity”. (continued)