Six friars on their way to a lifelong commitment to God decided to walk 300 miles to show their divine dependence in a unique way, The Washington Post reports.

Traveling on foot along highways and byways in Virginia and ending at a D.C. monastery, the pilgrims met everyone from lonely commuters to the Chik-Fil-A cow.

They depended on the goodness of strangers for food and housing for six weeks, and once took up a woman’s offer to feed them at the fast-food restaurant – that happens to have Christian roots.

“It was the oddest experience sitting there at Chik-fil-A with everyone staring at us,” recalled Mary Williams, who picked them up in Fairfax, Va. “The high point was when the guy dressed up like a cow came out and gave us all high fives. He was in costume. They were in robes. A lot of people were wondering what was going on.”

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