Bishop Asztrik emphasised the long-standing bond between two mountains - the Holy Mountain of Andechs - and the Martinsberg, the old name of the Archabbey of Pannonhalma. For him, this bond is also a very personal bridge to this day.

According to Bishop Asztrik, the two places are historically connected by "your and our Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia", whose mother, the Hungarian Queen Gertrud of Andechs-Merania, was born at Andechs Castle.

In the recent past, especially before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, he said, it was the many-sided and multiple help that Hungarian Catholics and Benedictines had received from the Bavarian Benedictines and in particular from St Boniface Abbey and personally Altabt Odilo. "I always feel obliged when I am in Bavaria to thank you. Your help has helped us to survive in dark times," the bishop reports from his own painful experience."

For Bishop Asztrik, the history of Andechs is very closely connected with the Eucharist, "because this very Eucharist is like a hidden treasure that is found again and again during Holy Mass."

Outwardly, one sees only the Eucharistic gifts of bread and wine, and yet "these gifts hold the highest good, the body and blood of our Lord". In this way, Jesus himself creates unity again and again and becomes the centre of the Christian community, said the Bishop. As pilgrims, it is important to set out again and again and to trust that the Lord gives us communion with him and with one another in the Eucharist.

"The Andechs pilgrimage to the Three Holy Hosts wants to remind us of this," Bishop Asztrik emphasised in conclusion, "the Lord lives in his Church. He is there for his Church. He gathers the faithful. The Andechs pilgrimage church invites us to do this again and again. May our Lord grow in you the longing for joy and happiness, ultimately for the life in fullness that the Lord alone can give us."

Several hundred people came to one of the oldest Andechs church festivals on the Holy Mountain. Flag delegations from the local associations took part in the festive service and the subsequent procession, as did Stefan Frey, District Administrator of the Starnberg district, and the Mayor of Andechs, Georg Scheitz.

With the Three Hosts Monstrance, the procession led around the pilgrimage church after the service. This was one of the few days in the year when the monstrance, weighing around ten kilograms, leaves the sanctuary chapel of the pilgrimage church in solemn procession. Two altars - below the monastery shop and near the Old Pharmacy - were stations on the way before the sacramental blessing in the pilgrimage church formed the conclusion.