Train of St. Charles

Fathers Giovanni Zubiani, cp (General Postulator) and Luigi Vaninetti, cp (General Consultor) traveled to the village of Munstergeleen in the Netherlands to attend the celebrations held there on occasion of the feast of Saint Charles Houben, cp.

The house where Charles was born has been turned into a shrine, a place of prayer which attracts many devout pilgrims.

On January 4th 2008, an enormous likeness of the saint, painted on the side of the air-conditioning car of a brand new railway train, was duly blessed.

On the 5th, the saint's feast day, there was a solemn concelebration of the Eucharist presided over by the papal nunzio to the Netherlands, followed by a pious procession through the village streets, ending at the saint's old home. Some 700 people took part in this liturgical and faith-filled event.