For the first time in 40 years, the organizers of the famous Catholic route linking Notre Dame of Paris to Chartres Cathedral will have to turn away pilgrims due to an overflow of registrations.

Over 19,000 young Catholics will walk from Paris to Chartres this weekend in what has become France’s largest traditional pilgrimage — but this year’s journey unfolds under unprecedented Vatican ...

Organized by the Catholic lay nonprofit organization Notre-Dame de Chrétienté — “Our Lady of Christendom” — since 1983, the pilgrimage to Chartres gathers each year thousands of pilgrims from all ages ...

More than 14,000 Catholics walked 62 miles from Paris to Chartres Cathedral in three days in an annual Pentecost pilgrimage of prayer and penance. Pilgrims from across the globe trekked through the ...

American Friends of Chartres Honors the Memory of Col. Welborn B. Griffith, the first World War II “Monuments Man” on Aug. 16 He died exactly 70 years ago, Aug. 16, battling in France against the ...

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In 2009, the French Ministry of Culture began an $18 million restoration of the medieval Chartres Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site 50 miles southwest of Paris. By 2017, the Gothic structure is ...