The Easter “Walk With Christ” tradition began 33 years ago. Jose Martinez, one of the people who organized the first walk, said it came about as an expression of gratitude for the newly built Santa Ana Mission in the 1980s.
Participants in the local Catholic Church's "Walk with Christ" make their way along Tremont Street in Tremonton Saturday, March 30.Walking down Tremont Street in Tremonton late Saturday afternoon, Karen Marroqui summed up her feelings in a single word.Marroqui and her husband, Cesar Orozco, pushing their three children Iscyli, Isaac and Ivan in a large stroller, had started walking at 7 a.m. in Brigham City and were about a mile from their destination.
“It’s a sacrifice that we have made for ourselves and for Christ, to have a feeling of what he went through,” Marroqui said. “Our children are still small. We want them to understand what sacrifice is, and how important it is for them to understand the sacrifices that people go through, and obviously our main one was Jesus Christ.”
At the time, Catholics in Tremonton held Sunday mass in the basement of the Methodist Church building on Tremont Street, which now houses a day-care center. When their new home was built courtesy of numerous generous donations, they were looking for a way to express their thanks.This article is published through the Utah News Collaborative, a partnership of news organizations in Utah that aim to inform readers across the state.
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