Paris, France. Procession de la Fete-Dieu. Representation

Paris, France. Procession de la Fete-Dieu (Procession of the Holy Host). Representation of the procession in the Place de Greve (now Place de l'Hotel de Ville), descending the rue du Martroy and marching in front of the Maison aux Piliers. Among the crowd, on the left, can be seen the French cleric Jean Juvenal des Ursins (1388-1473), kneeling in front of the reliquary, which is carried by two canons of the Sainte-Chapelle, and surrounded by the clerics of the brotherhood, crowned with rosaries of roses and holding large lighted candles. Engraving after a miniature of Missel de Jacques Juvenal des Ursins, 15th century. Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance. Paris, 1877

1877 Believers Blessed Brotherhood Canon Canons Christi Christians Cleric Clerics Corpus Crowned Descending Devotion Faithful Fifteenth Greve Juvenal Kneel Lepoque Lhotel Lighted Maison Militaire Moyen Piliers Religieuse Reliquary Rosaries Sacrament Sainte-chapelle Ursins Ville

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