Pentecost walkers make annual march through Basile

For 47 years now, the Cursillo Retreat Center in Prairie Rhonde has been hosting a men’s weekend retreat on Pentecost weekend. As an act of penance and prayer for the success of the retreat, men who have previously made the retreat start walking to the center from seven different cities in the state. All of the groups converge in Mallet before proceeding together to the center’s chapel for the…