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Summer pilgrimage to Brazil’s Basilica Shrine of the Divine Eternal Father draws 4 million

July 13, 2026 · 1 min read

More than 4.2 million pilgrims participated this year in the traditional pilgrimage of the Divine Eternal Father in the city of Trindade, in the Brazilian state of Goiás, once again making this one of Brazilʼs greatest expressions of faith.

Over the course of 10 days from June 26 to July 5, the faithful from across the country traveled to the Basilica Shrine of the Divine Eternal Father to give thanks for answered prayers and present their intentions.

Unlike other pilgrimages dedicated to a saint or the Virgin Mary under one of her titles, this devotion focuses on God the Father.

“I come out of an awareness of the Father’s fatherhood, of the Father’s love for us and for all the people here, without distinction. We are all loved equally by this Father, simply because he created us, and not because of what we do. That is the meaning. That is what I feel in my heart today,” one of the pilgrims told “EWTN Noticias,” the Spanish-language broadcast edition of EWTN News.

The pilgrimage has 186 years of history, with its origins dating back to the 1840s when a peasant couple found a small medallion with the image of the Holy Trinity crowning the Virgin Mary. Over the years, the…

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Petar Nikolić

Four million people in ten days, that's really huge. It is interesting to me that it all started with an ordinary peasant couple who found a medallion with the Holy Trinity crowning the Virgin. And here we rarely talk about this kind of devotion to the Father, more to the Mother of God or the saints.

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ვახტანგ ნოზაძე

Indeed, more than 4 million people in 10 days — that is already a serious number. I also liked the testimony that Pilgrim said that the Father loves us all equally, simply because He made us, not because of what we do. We also rarely talk directly about the father, more often about the Mother of God.