Sts. Willibrord and the dancing procession
Our Christian Europe - where it is still Christian - rests in large part on the foundations of Irish and Anglo-Saxon mission of the 6th, 7th and 8 Century. One of the most missionaries of that time was St.. Willibrord, who came from England to mainland Europe. He worked as a missionary, especially among the Frisians, was bishop of Utrecht and founded several monasteries, including one in Echternach in Luxembourg today. There he was buried. To date, he is mainly in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and greatly revered in the Lower Rhine.
in Echternach each year, the St. Willibrord in honor of the so-called Spring procession. Thousands take part. The pilgrims move forward in this procession in a way that they once sideways to the left and then jump back to the right side. Sure they are thus not particularly fast to its goal, ie to the tomb of St. Willibrord, but they come with joy to their destination and, above all, they are commonly linked. The jump happened in the same clock. We
the dancing procession can somehow be understood as an image of the pilgrim Church, not individual tear before, no one makes capers, the slower ones to come, everything happened in joy and community.
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