The history of the Lac Ste. Anne pilgrimage

On Tuesday, Pope Francis will accept a longstanding invitation to take part in an annual pilgrimage to Lac Ste. Anne.

While he is only attending now, the pilgrimage has occurred for more than 130 years.

It began when a chief from what is now North Dakota followed a vision and the sound of drumming all the way to the lake.

“When they got here, they thought that this would be the place because in the treetops you could hear the drumming,” Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation Chief Tony Alexis…