Walking down Tremont Street in Tremonton late Saturday afternoon, Karen Marroqui summed up her feelings in a single word.
“Tired.”
Marroqui and her husband, Cesar Orozco, pushing their three children Iscyli, Isaac and Ivan in a large stroller, had started walking at 7 a.m. in Brigham City and were about a mile from their destination. They were among a group of about 30 members of the local Catholic Church that embarked on a 21-mile trek from Saint Henry’s Church in Brigham City to Santa Ana Mission in Tremonton.
“It’s a sacrifice that we have made for ourselves and for Christ, to have a feeling of what he went through,” Marroqui said. “Our children are still small. We want them to understand what sacrifice is, and how important it is for them to understand the sacrifices that people go through, and obviously our main one was Jesus Christ.”
The Easter “Walk With Christ” tradition began 33 years ago. Jose Martinez, one of the people who organized the first walk, said it came about as an expression of gratitude for the newly built Santa Ana Mission in the 1980s.
At the time, Catholics in Tremonton held Sunday mass in the basement of the Methodist Church building on Tremont Street, which now houses a day-care center. When their new home was built courtesy of numerous generous donations, they were looking for a way to express their thanks.
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