Tullow Corpus Christi Procession

In 1782 there was in Ireland very tangible evidence that the Penal Laws introduced by the British Parliament in Ireland were being somewhat relaxed. So encouraged young Bishop Daniel Delany introduced the Corpus Christi Procession to Tullow, the then episcopal town of the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. Bishop Delany was only the second bishop in Ireland to re-introduce the procession, the first was a relative of his, Archbishop James Butler II, only a few years his senior both in age and as a bishop.
More than two hundred years later the tradition continues in Tullow, County Carlow, Ireland.
This year, on the evening of Saturday the 21st June, Bishop Denis Nulty led the people of Tullow and nearby parishes in the procession from the church, through the town square, and into the Brigidine Convent garden to the very same spot where Bishop Delany participated in his last procession in 1814 just weeks before his death on the 9th July. The monstrance used tonight was the same used by Bishop Delany.
Music: "Breastplate of St Patrick" by Donna Cori Gibson - Prayers of the Great Saints.