Annual feast day celebrations return to Guadalupe Shrine

Each year, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines to honor Mary for her feast day on Dec. 12. This year, pilgrimages began and week early on Dec. 4, 2021 when over 700 members and friends of Club Los Vaqueros Unidos (United Cowboys Club) in Wadsworth made a pilgrimage on horseback. That evening hundreds of truck drivers brought their trailers decorated for the feast to the shrine. And Dec. 11-12, 2021 saw the annual feast day celebrations with pilgrims visiting the shrine over a 48 hour period. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)