Fr. Elias Japan Pilgrimage 2025 Invitation

Ave Maria! Father Elias Mary invites you to join him on a pilgrimage to Japan in the Spring of 2025, during the beautiful cherry blossom season, to explore Japan’s fascinating Catholic history…

• Visit to the Marian apparition site at Akita, the place of miraculous weeping statue of Our Lady, where Sister Agnes Sasagawa received a most relevant message for our time.
• Follow in the footsteps of Saint Francis Xavier, who brought Japan the Christian faith in 1549.
• Pray in Nagasaki at the friary of Saint Maximillian Colby, who came as a missionary in the 1930s
• Learn about the hundreds of saints who were martyred during the great persecution which forced Christianity to go underground for more than 250 years and how Our Lady played a pivotal role in preserving the faith throughout Japan’s history.
• Visit and pray at the Statue of Holy Mary Canon of Hara Castle, the largest wooden statue of our lady in the world
• Visit the atomic bomb museums at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and majestic Mount Fuji

The Pilgrimage will occur from March 24th to April 7th 2025.

The registration deadline is January 7th, 2025

For more information, please call Canterbury Pilgrimages at 800-653-0017 or visit their website at canterburypilgrimages.com