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Details: The annual Dancing Procession (or Hopping Procession) is held in Echternach on Whit Tuesday, 17 May 2016.

Every year on Whit Tuesday, thousands of pilgrims and spectators gather to participate in this unique cultural phenomenon in honour of the abbey’s founder. What makes this procession distinctive is that it enables the entire body to be involved in prayer: proceeding by dancing back and forth to the beat of an endlessly repeated polka melody constitutes a unique expression of Christian joy.

Today, some 12.000 to 14.000 pilgrims, including 8.000 to 9.000 dancers, take part in the procession, which takes them to the tomb of the patron saint located in the crypt of the papal basilica in the heart of the abbey city of Echternach.

In the museum of the baroque abbey, the information and documentation centre on the dancing procession, and the lapidary museum, visitors and pilgrims can see the distinctive features of the basilica, the abbey, its scriptorium and the procession whose origins have been lost in the mists of time.

Photo by Peuky Barone-Wagener

Venue: Echternach town centre

Organiser: Ville d'Echternach

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