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But while on a pilgrimage to historic church sites in the Eternal City, she met Bobby Celio, an architecture major at Virginia Tech. The two hit it off, cultivated a long-distance relationship while Mr. Celio completed his studies and then married.
For the Arlington delegation, it will begin with two days at the Shrine at Fátima, where in 1917 three youngsters reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Then it’s on to Lisbon for the events of the pilgrimage. “Maybe it’s someone that would be great because I really feel like the people you meet there are there for the same purpose that you are, and have strong faith,” she said. “I think that’s really an incredible and very vital basis for a relationship.”
The Lisbon event is taking place a year later than its anticipated date of 2022, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Kevin Bohli, youth programs director for the Arlington diocese, the 130 WYD delegates he will lead on the pilgrimage is one of the largest U.S. groups, although “Boston is just a little bit larger than us,” he said.
The Rev. João Chagas, the Vatican official responsible for the WYD event, told Vatican Radio this week that “waiting for World Youth Day may [have grown] the desire of young people from all over the world to leave this meeting with Christ, with the Pope, with each other.”
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