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Ellinwood residents make Fr. Kapaun pilgrimage
kapaun pilgrimage
ELLINWOOD — On May 30, three Ellinwood residents, Mel and Mary Waite and Nathan Staton were part of the 275 pilgrims that walked the entire 60 miles from Catholic Church of the Resurrection Parish in Bel Aire to Pilsen. This was Staton’s third pilgrimage, and on June 1 he was joined by three of his children, Chioggia, Cabrini and Brisco. The 60-mile trek across Kansas is significant because that was the number of miles walked when Captain Emil Kapaun was captured in Korea and walked to the prisoner of war camp at Pyoktong, North Korea.