Notre-Dame de Chrétienté

Poster for the 30th anniversary of the pilgrimage 2012, with the theme "Family, Cradle of Christendom".

Notre-Dame de Chrétienté (French: Our Lady of Christendom) is a Catholic lay non-profit organization based in Versailles, France, which organises an annual pilgrimage from Notre-Dame de Paris to Notre-Dame de Chartres occurring around the Christian feast of Pentecost. Although the pilgrimage has existed since 1983, the organisation was not founded until 2000.

The pilgrimage characteristically use of the extraordinary form of the Roman rite of the Catholic Church.

At Pentecost in 2007, for the 25th anniversary of the pilgrimage, and following the announcement of the motu proprio letter Summorum Pontificum on the traditional liturgy of the Church,[1] there were nearly ten thousand pilgrims in Chartres on May 28, despite the difficult weather conditions.[2]

History

Mass celebrated in Notre-Dame de Chartres according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, a characteristic of the "Pilgrimage of Christendom".
Notre-Dame de Paris.
Notre-Dame de Chartres.

Even before the Gothic cathedral was built, Chartres was a place of pilgrimage. By the end of the 12th century, the church had become one of the most important popular pilgrimage destinations in Europe. However, it was at a different pilgrimage to the tomb of Fr. Emmanuel in Mesnil-Saint-Loup[3] when the traditionalist Catholic organization centre Henri et André Charlier had the idea to organize a traditional pilgrimage between the cathedrals of Paris and Chartres. The pilgrimage gradually increased in popularity, reaching ten thousand pilgrims in 1988.

Controversy

In 1988, traditionalist priest Marcel Lefebvre consecrated four priests as bishops without the approval of Pope John Paul II, an act of schism which split the traditionalist community in two. Thus, in 1989, two pilgrimages were organised: one called "Pèlerinage de Chrétienté" (Pilgrimage of Christendom) from Paris to Chartres, and the other called "Pèlerinage de Tradition" (Pilgrimage of Tradition) from Chartres to Paris.[4]

Themes

See also

References

  1. ↑ Paru en juillet 2007, Summorum Pontificum
  2. ↑ Site officiel de la cathédrale de Chartres
  3. ↑ Présentation du Père Emmanuel du Mesnil-Saint-Loup sur le site Esprit et Vie
  4. ↑ http://pelerinagesdetradition.com
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