St. Wendel Pilgrimage

And here we are right back at it.  Our church was doing a day trip pilgrimage to St. Wendel beginning with a Mass, a tour of the church, and an Easter market for a conclusion.  It just so happened to drop into some crazy cold single digit temps the night before.  It was windy and so terribly cold.

Drewy loves to find St. Andrew with his funny "X" shaped cross.

During the tour we learned that St. Wendel's body had been moved to this church behind the altar, and up higher so that people began walking under his tomb and touching it as they said a prayer.  Here is Hannah walking under his relics/tomb. 

The Easter market was too cold to even bother taking off my gloves to take pictures.  We had several friends there and so the kids were much happier in the frigid temps than they would've been otherwise.  Alas, even good company couldn't keep us out for long.  After a brat and a hot drink, we took a quick look around lingering a little bit longer in the flea market section, and then we were done.  We had to drag my die hard husband away, but it wasn't nearly as hard as it usually is to get him to call it quits early so he must've been feeling it too.  I found this very cool framed picture.  It says, "Our dear Lady of Perpetual Help" in German.