RECORD PILGRIMAGE
THIRTY-TWO MILES IN A DAY. Pilgrimages hold throughout Francs during Whitsuntide have revealed that the record pilgrimage is that every year at Magnac-Laval (Haute-Vienne). While most pilgrimages consist in a short journey of a few miles, the pilgrimage of Magnac-Laval involves covering a distance in the same day of 32 miles. This act of devotion is known as the "Pilgrimage of Nine Leagues.” The leagues are those of pre-Revolutionary days, each nearly 6 kilometres (3.72 miles). After a mass at 1 o’clock in the morning, the pilgrims start on their long journey at 2.30 a.m. At just over half a mile from the town the first halt is made, when the cure accompanying them delivers a short address. During the whole of the long journey the pilgrims chant ancient hymns, and forty-eight times the procession stops before forty-eight crosses decked with flowers. It is not until 9 o’clock at night, after two rests during the day of an hour each for meals, that the pilgrims return to their starting place before the church of .Magnac-Laval.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1939, Page 3
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177RECORD PILGRIMAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1939, Page 3
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