It transcended all boundaries. To be at the canonization while persons from four continents were being raised up, that is to taste the Universal Church. The idea of pilgrimage was not new for Randall. She had made one before. One of her favorite descriptions of pilgrimage is by Bruce Anderson in Attache.
Pilgrimage has to be about more than bumper stickers and picture postcards.
It has to be about change. Randall made a pilgrimage 10 years ago with a Franciscan group to the Holy Land and Egypt. She felt thankful for her Catholic faith and her African heritage. This pilgrimage for the canonization was a personal journey, a pilgrimage of witness. Randall traveled with 87 other pilgrims on a trip sponsored by Bakhita's order in the U.S. and the National Black Catholic Conference.