By Jeffrey Bruno, National Catholic Register - The Mass was the center, as it must be. Then came the procession. The Blessed Sacrament was carried across the shrine grounds to the Rustic Altar, then to the Historic Chapel, where adoration continued throughout the day. In the blazing heat, people followed. They sang, prayed, knelt, walked, endured, and adored... And Christ was among them... It would have been enough to say that the pilgrimage began in St. Augustine. But that wouldn’t be enough. ... Because this was not merely a location. It was a beginning returning to a beginning..