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The Dominican community of Valletta will be holding the annual penitential pilgrimage with the miraculous effigy of the Ecce Homo next Friday at 5.30pm.
The pilgrimage starts from St Dominic parish church from where it will proceed to the upper part of Valletta.
For the first time, this year the pilgrimage will visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel for a prayer session with the Carmelite community. Back to St Dominic church, the pilgrimage will be followed by sung Mass by parish priest Michael Camilleri OP, at 7pm.
According to the parish history books, there is nothing recorded about the origin of this effigy. But devotion towards it was already strong at the beginning of the 17th century.
Proof of this were the many devotional offerings made by parishioners, including money and precious items.