Pilgrimage of Thanks

TWENTY-FIVE Mexican sea. men who had been shipwrecked in the Pacific, recently made a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe to give thanks to Our Lady for their providential salvation.
Last January a hurricane lashed a 11,000 ton ship 20 miles off San Francisco. Sixty-two seamen were lost during the storm when the steamer sank after vainly sending out S.O.S. calls.
Of the 80 seamen who had abandoned the ship, 25 were Mexicans. Before leaping into the ocean from the how of the ship, they invoked the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, promising to venerate her in her basilica if she spared their lives.