These Whit walks have been going on for centuries. Originally the participants were new converts who wore white robes to go to their first communion , and were accompanied to church by their families The tradition has survived in South Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) for at least 120 years. My great grandmother Lydia Kinsey - (1832-1828) walked in the Whit procession in Manchester with ST;John's Church , Lower Broughton , from 1842 until 1924 , carrying her Bible. Each church had a brass band to lead the procession . Anglican churches and Catholic churches walked on different days,on Whit Monday and Whit Friday. Churches from Salford and Manchester walked towards the city centre and along Corporation Street and held an Open Air Service in Albert Square.Towns further out ,like Bury, Bolton ,Swinton and Pendlebury, Oldham Rochdale , Stockport and Altringham had their own Whit walks. Salisbury in Wiltshire ,where I now live, has its walk of Witness on Good Friday. , followed by an Open Air Service outside the Cathedral . Anglicans, Catholics, Methodists , Baptists, URC, and the new House Churches all join in. People were amazed when I said that as a child, I walked 2 miles into the centre of Manchester with the church and Sunday School I went to. In Germany the people of the Parish Church of Brakel walk 3 km on their Patronal Festival to a small chapel 3 km away.Although they are a catholic parish they sing Lutheran hymns as they walk . They have an Open air service and sit on the small hills around the Chapel. The Bishop preaches and castigates the people for not being proper Catholics if they only go to church and walk in the procession , once a y ear.He said , "Call yourselves Catholics when you only go to church 3 times in your lives !" We went with friends who live there and as I speak German, I could understand the sermon. Thousands of people come from the Paderborn area ,which is a tiny Catholic enclave in a much lather Lutheran State, The local prince was a Catholic after the 30years war in the1600s . It is a popular day out for people to come, many are only nominally Catholic
The Italian walks will never die I have been following them for years
I have been following the Italians walking for over 30 years and enjoy watching them
These Whit walks have been going on for centuries. Originally the participants were new converts who wore white robes to go to their first communion , and were accompanied to church by their families The tradition has survived in South Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) for at least 120 years. My great grandmother Lydia Kinsey - (1832-1828) walked in the Whit procession in Manchester with ST;John's Church , Lower Broughton , from 1842 until 1924 , carrying her Bible.
Each church had a brass band to lead the procession . Anglican churches and Catholic churches walked on different days,on Whit Monday and Whit Friday. Churches from Salford and Manchester walked towards the city centre and along Corporation Street and held an Open Air Service in Albert Square.Towns further out ,like Bury, Bolton ,Swinton and Pendlebury, Oldham Rochdale , Stockport and Altringham had their own Whit walks.
Salisbury in Wiltshire ,where I now live, has its walk of Witness on Good Friday. , followed by an Open Air Service outside the Cathedral . Anglicans, Catholics, Methodists , Baptists, URC, and the new House Churches all join in. People were amazed when I said that as a child, I walked 2 miles into the centre of Manchester with the church and Sunday School I went to.
In Germany the people of the Parish Church of Brakel walk 3 km on their Patronal Festival to a small chapel 3 km away.Although they are a catholic parish they sing Lutheran hymns as they walk . They have an Open air service and sit on the small hills around the Chapel. The Bishop preaches and castigates the people for not being proper Catholics if they only go to church and walk in the procession , once a y ear.He said , "Call yourselves Catholics when you only go to church 3 times in your lives !" We went with friends who live there and as I speak German, I could understand the sermon. Thousands of people come from the Paderborn area ,which is a tiny Catholic enclave in a much lather Lutheran State, The local prince was a Catholic after the 30years war in the1600s . It is a popular day out for people to come, many are only nominally Catholic
I like the Oldham pipe and and the northenden pipe band I always follow them
It's a shame my mum was a Italian lady she use to make her own dresses she past away in 2016 reminds me a lot of her sadly missed good old Maria.❤
How long as Oldham pipe band been going can anyone help me