Some 15,000 pilgrims join Velehrad mass

About 15,000 people took part in the national pilgrimage mass organised today within the Days of Good Will People marking the anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius missionaries in Great Moravia in AD 863, festival secretary Josef Korenek has told journalists. The Sunday part of the festival, one of the biggest religious events in the Czech Republic, was attended by about 5,000 people.