Kikí y Guillermo Tagle, de Santiago,  Chile, en el Santuario Original - un milagro visible Kikí y Guillermo Tagle, from Santiago, Chile, at the Original Shrine - a miracle that one can see Kikí und Guillermo Tagle aus Santiago, Chile, am Urheiligtum - ein Wunder, das man sehen kann
Kikí y Guillermo Tagle con sus hijos y yernos Kikí and Guillermo Tagle with their sons, daughter, daughters-in-law, son-in-law Kikí und Guillermo Tagle mit ihren Söhnen, Tochter, Schiegertöchtern und -sohn
Peregrinación de Osnabrück: banda de música familiar Osnabrück pilgrimage: family music band Wallfahrt aus Osnabrück: Familien-Musikband
Los más chicos integrantes de la banda de música The youngest members of the band Die jüngsten Bandmitglieder
Peregrinos de Osnabrück en el Santuario Original Pilgrims from Osnabrück at the Original Shrine Wallfahrer aus Osnabrück beim Urheiligtum Fotos: POS Fischer © 2004
Santuario de Monte Sión Shrine at Mount Sion Heiligtum auf Berg Sion Foto: Mas © 2004

SCHOENSTATT, mkf. ‘This pilgrimage is in thanksgiving for the wonders Kiki and Guillermo Tagle have experienced.’ Kiki and Guillermo, along with their nine children and their spouses, traveled from Santiago de Chile to Schoenstatt. They all arrived in Schoenstatt to celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary and to give thanks for the wonders received after an accident that occurred in 2000. Seminarians from Belgium also arrived in Schoenstatt, as did the annual pilgrimage from the Diocese of Osnabrück and seminarians from the Schoenstatt Fathers who are preparing for their ordination next Saturday.

On the Covenant Day of May 18^th, the Tagle couple celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary with Mass in the Adoration Church at 9:30 A.M. When they came home from the hospital following their accident in 2000, Kiki and Guillermo Tagle wrote, "We discovered we have wonderful children who are capable of doing anything for us because they love us". Their children began a Schoenstatt prayer chain all over Chile and the Shrines around the world right after their parents’ terrible car accident. The accident occurred when the couple were driving home after a Schoenstatt meeting. They asked Mario Hiriart for his intersession. Mario Hiriart was a friend and group companion of Guillermo Tagle, their father. They faithfully prayed for a miracle to this servant of God, and a member of the Institute of the Brothers of Mary. Following Mass in the Original Shrine on May 17^th, 2004,Kiki Tagle said, "Three doctors firmly stated that I would live in a vegetative state".

Confidence and family solidarity

The Tagle family arrived on Sunday, May 16^th in the afternoon. Their first visit was to the Original Shrine. Guillermo Tagle said, "Where ever we go in Schoenstatt we run into people who say, ‘I prayed for you.’ They really prayed. They remember that. This is very moving." It is the confidence, the strength of faith and family love, and perhaps because it was the first Schoenstatt prayer chain on the Internet. The Tagles’ said, "There were thousands of prayers that maybe touched heaven allowing us to extend our stay on earth…" so we can carry on the wonders of the MTA and those wonders of the family, their own family and the Schoenstatt Family.

Everything was given in the place of grace

Father Franz Widmayer explained to the pilgrims who arrived from Belgium and from the diocese of Osnabrück that each pilgrimage is an act of thankfulness and confidence. He encouraged them to bring all their thankfulness and their concerns to the places of grace, and to pray for their loved ones and for the great needs of Germany and all over the world: for work, for the Christians who suffer prosecution in China, North Korea and other Islamic countries; for those who are escaping the war in Sudan. He also encouraged them to give thanks for the wonders that the MTA, the Schoenstatt Mother Thrice Admirable has done. He reminded the pilgrims of the blessing of the Shrine in Garanhuns, Brazil, where 50,000 people attended.

Seminarians of the Schoenstatt Fathers were preparing themselves for their diaconal ordination on Thursday, May 20.

Translation: Vera Gamez, Austin, Texas, USA/Paula Dudgeon, Minnesota, USA