In the heart of a plain of France, the column of pilgrims unfolds towards the cathedral of Chartres. Charles Péguy sang this landscape, "ocean of wheat", "moving foam". That was in 1912. He walked to implore the healing of his son Peter. "The national road is our narrow gate," he confided following the Gospel. More than a century later, the atmosphere seems immutable. On the horizon, above the ears of wheat, the two arrows of the religious building point to the sky. Notre-Dame de Chartres remains a sought-after cape.
They will be 16,000 Catholics to walk this Pentecost weekend from Paris to Chartres under the leadership of the association Notre-Dame de Chrétienté. Presided over by a layman, Jean de Tauriers, animated by lay people, this organization united with Rome claims to be "tradition" in the Church. This means that it recognizes itself in the Mass, said in Latin, according to the rite of the missal of 1962, before the Second Vatican Council.
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