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Horsemen journey on Pentecost Ride. CNS on Jun 9, 2014 The prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was among 900 horsemen to participate in Europe's biggest Pentecost …More
Horsemen journey on Pentecost Ride.

CNS on Jun 9, 2014
The prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was among 900 horsemen to participate in Europe's biggest Pentecost procession.
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The prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, was among 900 horsemen to participate in Europe's biggest Pentecost procession in Bad Kötzting, Germany.
Legend has it that in the year 1412, a man who got injured during forestry was asking for the last rites before dying in a village approximately 7 kilometres (4 miles) away from Kötzting. …More
The prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, was among 900 horsemen to participate in Europe's biggest Pentecost procession in Bad Kötzting, Germany.
Legend has it that in the year 1412, a man who got injured during forestry was asking for the last rites before dying in a village approximately 7 kilometres (4 miles) away from Kötzting. The local priest was unable to comply with the wishes of the man because he needed protection from bears, wolves, and other dangers luring along the way. After asking the young men of the village to protect him, they accompanied the priest to the dying man. After a safe journey, the participants vowed to repeat the ride every year. That is how it remained ever since. Every Whit Monday, the ride of over 900 horses and riders is repeated. The horses wear ornaments and the riders wear traditional Bavarian clothes. The ride starts in Kötzting and goes to the village "Steinbühl", where according to the legend, the man asking for anointment, was dying. Only men from the region are allowed to participate in the procession, the participating horses, however, come from all over Bavaria.