The newly elected abbot was to put off his shoes at the door of the church, and proceed barefoot to meet the members of the house advancing in a procession.

alt = Tapestry image of a procession of men carrying a coffin heading towards a church building.

This bust was later taken to Siena, and carried through that city in a procession to the Dominican church.

After a requiem mass in Stuttgart's St. Eberhard church, his funeral procession was followed by protesters ( mainly students ) who wanted his entire legacy remembered-even after his death-especially his former membership in the Nazi Party.

Nestorian priests in a procession on Palm Sunday, in a 7th-or 8th-century wall painting from a Nestorian church in Gaochang | Qocho, China

The congregation in an Oriental Orthodox church in India collects palm fronds for the Palm Sunday procession ( the men of the congregation on the left of the sanctuary in the photo ; the women of the congregation are collecting their fronds on the right of the sanctuary, outside the photo.

In many Protestant churches, children are given palms, and then walk in procession around the inside of the church while the adults remain seated.

Pagkáhába-haba man ng prusisyón, sa simbahan pa rin ang tulóy. The ( wedding ) procession may stretch on and on, but it still ends up at the church.

Sometimes the groom is already present in the church ; other times, he and any groomsmen form part of the procession.

* Anastasius I leads, as a sign of his victory, a procession to Sosthenion and attends a service of thanks at the local church dedicated to the Archangel Michael.

The interior of the church is simple and small but has numerous excellent works of art, which accentuate the size and rich carving of the Crucificado de Risueño, an object of devotion for the gypsy people, who sing and dance in the procession of Holy Week.

A procession with the ornate tomb then takes place around the church and back into the church where it will be venerated by everyone.

At the end of the Great Doxology the epitaphios is carried in procession around the outside of the church, and then is brought back in.

Jan Želivský, a Hussite priest at the church of the Virgin Mary of the Snows, led his congregation on a procession through the streets of Prague to the New Town Hall ( Novoměstská radnice ) on Charles Square.

* The Faradda di li candareri ( The Descent of the Candelieri ): it's a devotional procession, in which enormous wooden candles are carried by members of the city guilds from the town centre to the church of Santa Maria of Betlem, in commemoration of the end of the plague in 1582, but it probably has older origins, from a cultural tradition from Pisa that as early as in the second half of the 13th century was practiced in some parts of Sardinia.

After three o ' clock in the afternoon ( the time at which Jesus is traditionally believed to have died ), the faithful venerate the cross in the local church and follow the procession of the

At the end of the Great Doxology, while the Trisagion is sung, the epitaphios is taken in procession around the outside the church, and is then returned to the tomb.

It is also sung on Maundy Thursday, during the procession from the church to the place where the Blessed Sacrament is kept until Good Friday.

It was invented by the king, who was so proud of it that he celebrated it by a festival followed by a procession to the church to thank God for the blessing.

He gave her the funeral of a Queen ; her coffin was transported amidst a procession of princes, princesses, and nobles to the Saint-Germain-l ' Auxerrois church in Paris, for a requiem mass.

The church authorities were about congratulating themselves that the difficulty was settled when they were confronted with a new issue ... Friday, the little son of a leader of the Lithuanian faction died, and yesterday afternoon an attempt was made to bury him in the Polish cemetery ... the Poles were on hand when the funeral procession reached the gates of the cemetery.

A modern event organised by the Haworth Traders ' Association is " Scroggling the Holly " which takes place in November .. Bands and Morris men lead a procession of children in Victorian costume following the Holly Queen up the cobblestones to a crowning ceremony on the church steps.

With a procession and ceremony, the foundation stone of the new church for the parish of North Leith was laid on 11 April 1814.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

It was even suggested by Jan Długosz that cymbals which were played in procession before her represented some pagan Lithuanian tradition.

On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.

On Saturday 23 June, the traditional eve-of-coronation procession to Westminster was greeted by a large and enthusiastic crowd.

Like the adjacent Arabic culture ( in the pre-Islamic period ), the act of marriage appears mainly to have consisted of the groom fetching the bride, although among the Israelites ( unlike the Arabs ) the procession was a festive occasion, accompanied by music, dancing, and lights.

The family procession was headed by Vespasian and Titus, while Domitian, riding a magnificent white horse, followed with the remaining Flavian relatives.

Despite rain, and opposition from conservatives based on the amount of money that was being spent, the procession went ahead.

In an elaborate festival held on the anniversary of the revolt that brought the monarchy to its knees, David's Hercules figure was revealed in a procession following the lady Liberty ( Marianne ).

In his speech during the procession, David " explicitly emphasized the opposition between people and monarchy ; Hercules was chosen, after all, to make this opposition more evident ".

) References in Euripides's plays to contemporary events provide a terminus a quo, though sometimes the references might even precede a datable event ( e. g. lines 1074-89 in Ion describe a procession to Eleusis, which was probably written before the Spartans occupied it during the Peloponnesian War ).

From the early 17th century, the play was famous for its ghost and vivid dramatisation of melancholy and insanity, leading to a procession of mad courtiers and ladies in Jacobean and Caroline drama.

In 1290 the funeral procession of Eleanor of Castile stopped overnight in the town and an Eleanor cross was put up at a cost of £ 100 in the Market Place.

In March 1937, Alexander was appointed as one of the aides-de-camp to the recently acceded King George VI and in May returned to the United Kingdom to take part in this capacity in the state procession through London during the King's coronation.

Alexander would have been seen in this event by two of his Canadian viceregal successors: Vincent Massey, who was then the Canadian high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and Massey's secretary, Georges Vanier, who watched the procession from the roof of Canada House on Trafalgar Square.

The result was a massive Christian procession.

In yet another legend, Jadwiga was taking part in a Corpus Christi Day procession when a coppersmith's son drowned by falling into a river.

The cemetery was also where the Ηiera Hodos ( the Sacred Way, i. e. the road to Eleusis ) began, along which the procession moved for the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Whitstable, Kent, hosts a good example of more traditional May Day festivities, where the Jack in the Green festival was revived in 1976 and continues to lead an annual procession of morris dancers through the town on the May Bank Holiday.

She was accompanied by her half-sister Elizabeth, and a procession of over 800 nobles and gentlemen.

According to Procopius, it was carried through the streets of Constantinople during Belisarius ' triumphal procession.