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Excerpt from The Pilgrimage of Our Lady of Prompt Succor: An Historical Sketch
No Catholic people but has them. Now, just as Faith has called them into existence in other lands, so has it created one here in our own midst - that of Our Lady of Prompt Succor.
Pilgrimages seem to answer a need of the hu man heart. There is a mysterious attraction about certain places that have, so to say, acted a role in human history, whose name or fame, for better or for worse, is intimately associated with the life of the race.
Thus, man will go to visit and contemplate with a strange pleasure the battlefield where sleep the ashes of his country's dead; or will go to gaze with awe on the scene that recalls some great civic revolution; or, in fine, under the same strange spell, will go to pay the homage of rev erence at the tomb of departed worth, be it that of a Shakespeare or of a Washington.
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