A long walk for Baptism anniversary celebrations
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
15.04.2016 09:33
A 50 year-old man has covered 360 kilometres on foot in six days to attend a thanksgiving mass for the homeland at Gniezno Cathedral on Thursday.
Photo: Flickr.com/Lyric Kinard
Michał Tęcza from Zwoleń, near Radom in central Poland, told the Catholic Information Agency that he arrived at Gniezno very exhausted. On the last stretch of the walk he was joined by his wife and daughter.
An organist by profession, he works in the parish of Janowiec-on-the-Vistula, some 24 km from home, and sometimes goes to work, one way, on foot. He took up long-distance walking three years ago.
Last year he covered 3,000 km. In preparation for his latest exploit, he covered 90 km in a single day. (mk/rg)