Archbishop of Tehran Cardinal Mathieu concelebrated at St. Salvator Cathedral and then carried the reliquary for part of the procession.
On Ascension Day an annual festival has taken place in Bruges for the last 721 years. The festival commemorates the arrival in Bruges of a relic of the Holy Blood of Christ, which according to tradition was brought to the city from Jerusalem during a crusade in 1150. Conventual Franciscan Cardinal Dominique Mathieu, the archbishop of Tehran-Isfahan, participated in this year’s celebrations on May 28.
A procession with about 1,800 participants reenacted 53 sacred scenes as it wound its way through the medieval city center.
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