Hi Iwert - sorry I missed this spectacular procession. But with so many
pictures I can feel like I was there!
I was talking to my neighbour about it - he also missed it because of
vacation - but he remarked his wife's family always participate as her
father is former mayor (Rutter? Rutten?) - maybe you know the family...
br
jez
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:54 PM, iwert bernakiewicz <zuikooh@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There was a very big septennial procession in our hometown (and
> street) last week.
> Circa 3000 people are in the procession (it goes out 4 times for one
> week) and about
> half a million spectators were in town.
>
> 1-93 are of the first sunday (high noon) with E-3 and OM 100f2 (about
> half with 1.4tc), 94-168 are of the last friday in our street with E-3
> and 12-60, 169 - end is of the flowers over our street (with 5D and
> 100f2 and 35-80):
>
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/zuikooh/Kroning2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ3UiLzYrYvh0gE&feat=directlink
>
> The procession is held since 1890 when the statue of Mary was crowned
> (she is named Maria, Causa Nostrae Laetitiae, reason of our happines).
> One anecdote: since the procession was held it did not rain once
> during the procession itself, and that is rather extraordinary for a
> Belgian summer :). The statue itself was made in 1479, it is 1.45m
> tall and weighs 70kg.
> it is shown in image 163.
>
> So a bit of our (living) history to the list,
> enjoy,
>
> Iwert
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