“LITTLE SAINT JOHN”
RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE IN FRANCE. An annual religious procession, in which the prettiest child of Valreas, in Vaucluse, takes part, with a sheep skin his only clothing and mounted on a car with his feet resting on a lamb, draws thousands of visitors every year at the end of June. The procession of “Little John the Baptist” is an ancient one, and the same tradition is followed every year. In his left hand the child, who is seated on a car drawn by oxen, holds a long wand bearing a cross and a bant ner on which are the worlds, “Ecce Agnus Dei.” With his right hand he makes the motion of blessing the crowd. The car on which he rides is the centre of a procession headed by drummers and buglers. In the same procession there is a car of agriculture, preceded by a sower scattering seeds as he walks. The procession takes place at night, and all taking part carry torches, and when the procession has passed through the main thoroughfares of the town little “Saint John” gives the signal for a firework display and the opening of an openair ball at which the revellers dance well into the early hours.,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1938, Page 3
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