For centuries, the most famous Eucharistic procession in France, as grandiose and ornamented as that of Toledo in Spain, was that of Angers. Shawn Tribe had a great article last March on some of the liturgical beauties used in the past, and now saved in museums.
As so many good Catholic things, the Grand Sacre was dismantled after the regretted Council (more precisely, in the fateful year of 1968), but Traditional faithful close to the Society of Saint Pius X recreated it 11 years ago, always happening on the last Sunday in June (this year, Saints Peter and Paul).
Naturally, even though it now includes the huge number (for our age) of 800 faithful, it does not involve the whole city as used to be the case (and as it still is the case in Corpus processions in Spain and elsewhere in the world). But they do bring huge beauty, and great purity represented by the white clothes of the numerous children from large families.
Laudetur Iesus Christus! [Images from 2025: La Porte Latine; images of museum pieces: Liturgical Arts Journal; Tip: @adeodaturum on Twitter/X]
