In 1960, groups of Columbian Squires in Mexico, Canada, and the United States decided to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe by carrying a rose across North America from Canada to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Monterrey, Mexico.
In recent years the program has expanded to eight silver roses traveling the western, central, and eastern corridors of North America, with Knights of Columbus from Canada to Mexico carrying the roses from destination to destination, and finally to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Monterrey, Mexico.
Through the silver rose program, we honor our Virgin Mother and celebrate the miracle of the roses that occurred almost 500 years ago. With the Silver Rose, we will also receive a box for written petitions. This petitions box will travel with the Silver Rose and will be placed before the altar of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Monterrey, Mexico.