St. Leonhard is the patron saint of cattle and horses. Now you may snicker but let's remember back to 500AD. You couldn't be the saint of fine German automobiles or the saint of tasty schnitzels. Beer was probably already taken. Thinking about what was valuable - you're left with cattle an horses.
We went to one of the largest festivals this year (versus last year where we went to a small village) in Bad Tolz. The people of the town/city dress in traditional clothes (not costumes) and parade through the city and up to the church for a blessing. The new catholic cardinal was in the second cart.
While the the procession is quite beautiful and interesting, the boys seemed to get less out it this year than last. They asked when it would be over as we walked to the parade route (not a good sign) and only seemed amused when they were permitted to take some pictures.
After the memory card was full on the camera (650 pictures), real boredom seemed to take hold of the 8 year old.
I don't know what his problem was - there were only 96 horse drawn carts in the procession.
And he won't get this again when he moves to some city like Orlando.
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