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THE MAIN PILGRAMAGE TO SKALKA /July 17/

THE MAIN PILGRAMAGE TO SKALKA /July 17/

Main pilgrimage takes place on the 17th day of July each year, the day of St.  Andrew and Baňadik.

Typically, there are about 15 thousand believers from Slovakia and the neighbouring countries (Czech Republic, Poland, ..) coming to this event.

 

How was the pilgrimage of 2005:

Nová Skalka – Merciful Church of St. Andrew-Svorad and Baňadik

Saturday, July 16 – Festival of St. Andrew-Svorad and Beňadik

17:00 - Confessions

19:00 – Holy Mass, celebrated by Mons. Peter Paliatka, priest from Dolná Tižina

20:00 – 1. part of the youth programme

21:00 – Via Dolorosa

22:00:00 – 2. part of the youth programme

(featuring a youth music group BETSABE)

23:00 – Holly Mass (new ordained priests of the Nitra diocese pronounce the new priesthood blessing)

01:00 – all-year-long adoration led by families and prayer groups

 

Sunday, July 17

06:00 – Holy Mass, celebrated by Stanislav Strapko, local priest

08:00 – Polish-Slovak Holly Mass

10:30 – Holy Mass of Dedication, celebrated by P. Bronislav Ignác Kramár,

O. pream, the Želivský Abbot, Czech Republic.

Following the Mass, there will be adoration of the remains of St. Andrew-Svorad and Beňadik

and a farewell to the pilgrims.

 

Stará Skalka                       

Saturday, July 16

11:00 – 20:00             Tours of the Monastery

 

Sunday, July 17

08:00 – 14:30             Tours of the Monastery

                       

It will be possible to visit to the reconstructed chapel of the Lord’s Birth Part and the cave during the pilgrimage.