Archbishop of San Francisco, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has led eight young adults on a journey of a lifetime while travelling across the Golden Gate Bridge on the first leg of a more than 2,200-mile evangelizing pilgrimage across America to Indianapolis.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone set the tone for the pilgrims and all those who filled the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption for the Mass recently before they set out in procession.

He called them in this public act of their faith to follow Jesus Christ in his “way of love,” recalling the witness of modern martyrs such as the Ulma family, killed by the Nazis for protecting Jewish people in Poland.

Seven years ago, Archbishop Cordileone consecrated the archdiocese to the Immaculate Conception on the 100th anniversary of the appearance of the Blessed Mother to the three children at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917.

“If we are public about our faith, displaying it by righteous living,” Archbishop Cordileone said, “then others will perceive in us something different: a better way to live. And this is the most important meaning of the power of faith to change history. The power to change the history of individual lives, bringing them into the saving encounter with Jesus Christ and knowing his love, grace, truth and freedom.”

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