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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