The Our Lady of Guadalupe Silver Rose has been a Knights of Columbus tradition for 58 years. 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. One silver rose will pass through Lubbock during a special prayer service at St. John the Baptist on Monday, September 30th at 6:30pm. 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.