On January 29, feast of Saint Francis de Sales, Institute superiors, canons, and seminarians, as well as the Sisters Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus, made a pilgrimage to Treviso, Italy, where the heart of Saint Francis de Sales is enshrined and venerated in a beautiful side altar of the convent church of the Visitation Sisters. This Salesian pilgrimage, which has become an annual tradition, was honored by the special presence of His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.

His Eminence celebrated a solemn Pontifical Mass in honor of the Doctor of Divine Charity. The very gracious and hospitable Visitation Sisters assisted from their cloistered choir stalls. In the late afternoon, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was offered, after which the holy relic was presented to the clergy, sisters, and faithful for pious veneration.

This grace-filled pilgrimage was a very fitting preparation for the following day, when His Eminence, Cardinal Burke, was to ordain three Institute seminarians to the holy diaconate in the seminary chapel of Gricigliano.