Mexico City - October 2023 - On Sunday 8 October, a group consisting of indigenous Mixes Chinantecos and Zapotec peoples made their annual pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe to lay their gratitude, needs and concerns at the feet of Jesus and the Virgin of Guadalupe. The Eucharist was preceded by Mgr Salvador Cleofás Murguía Villalobos SDB, Bishop of the Prelature of Mixes Oaxaca. Mgr Héctor Guerrero Córdova SDB, the Bishop Emeritus of the Prelature of Mixes, Fr Ignacio Ocampo Uribe, Provincial of the Salesian Province of Mexico-City (MEM), Salesians and diocesan priests who provide their pastoral service in the parishes of the prelature also concelebrated. The Oaxaca Mass was animated by village bands with Mixes, Chinantecos and Zapotec parishioners. Departing on Friday evening from their communities, the pilgrims were welcomed on Saturday by various benefactors, including the Salesian Cooperators and a local group of the Association of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA), who provided for their meals and financial support.