Days of People of Goodwill in Velehrad Attracted About 30 Thousand Pilgrims During Friday and Saturday

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Days of People of Good Will in Velehrad attracted about 30 thousand pilgrims during Friday and Saturday. The Cyrillo-Methodian pilgrimage was carried in the spirit of the Catholic Jubilee Year 2025, but also commemorated the anniversary of the end of the war and the events of Velehrad in 1985, which were a harbinger of the fall of the communist regime.

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The two-day Days of People of Good Will concluded on Saturday with a pilgrimage mass in front of the Basilica in Velehrad. Saturday's national pilgrimage and Friday's program of one of the most important church holidays in the country attracted fifty thousand people from the Czech Republic and abroad.

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The Velehrad festivities commemorate the legacy of the Slavic missionaries Cyril and Methodius, offering charitable, cultural, social and sporting events.

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Velehrad (Uherskohradišťsko) - The National Pilgrimage in Velehrad in the Uherskohradišťsko region was visited today by approximately 30,000 people from the Czech Republic and abroad, and on Friday 20,000 arrived for the Days of People of Good Will. The attendance was similar to last year. This was told to ČTK by the secretary of the event, Josef Kořenek. The two-day event culminated in the morning with a pilgrimage mass in the square in front o…

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At the concert in the courtyard in front of the Velehrad Basilica, Jiří Pavlica with Hradišťan, theater artist Jiří Suchý, singer Ondřej Ruml, jazz guitarist Rudy Linka, soprano Lada Bočková, Siebeneichener Quartett from Prague and the Peterhouse College Choir from Cambridge performed. They were accompanied by the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra Zlín, the Choir of Stojan's Gymnasium Velehrad, the Academic Choir Žerotín and the Slovak You…