Good Friday pilgrimage photograph   Save
Ohio Guide Photographs
Description: Caption reads: "GOOD FRIDAY PILGRIMAGE, CINCINNATI. Pilgrims climbing the steps to the Church of the Immaculate Conception. "On Good Friday devout Catholics perform a colorful pilgrimage up several flights of steps from the foot of E. Third St. in self-communion, then 103 steps to the CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, Pavillion and Guide Sts., receive blessings from a fragment of the true cross, climb steps to the Holy Cross Monastery and Church, and pass reverently through the dim "grotto" beneath the church and then into the church." - Cincinnati City Treatment. some of the pilgrams kneel and pray on each step." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F08_004_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Pilgrimage; Good Friday
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)