Pardon (procession)

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Pardon in Brittany

The pardon ("request for forgiveness") is a term used especially in Brittany for a procession .

On the occasion of local saints' festivals , the faithful gather in the church and then follow the procession, at the end of which mostly traditional presentations and a folk festival take place.

During the "sea pardon", the crowd pulls to the harbor , where the ships are blessed .

On the occasion of the pardons there are also pilgrimages . The Breton Tro-Breizh ("Bretagne Tour"), for example, represents a more than 500 kilometer long pilgrimage for the faithful to the graves of the seven Breton founding saints in Dol-de-Bretagne , Saint-Malo , Saint-Brieuc , Tréguier and Saint-Pol -de-Léon , Quimper and Vannes .