Media item

Final day of the seventh annual Sanctuary Procession

Week number: 76-37

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:56
Publication date:
1 January 1976
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
BG_9755

Once every seven years the Sanctuary Procession takes place in Maastricht, this time the religious happening draws in almost a quarter of a million people. SHOTS: procession moves across the Vrijthof, watched by a.o. cardinal Willebrands, bishop Gijsen van Roermond and minister Dries van Agt; Maria statue, busts and the shrines of St. Lambertus and Saint Servaas from Liège are carried in the procession, which leads through the centre of Maatsricht and across the Saint Servaas bridge.