Over the recent Whitsun weekend I, along with more than 20,000 other pilgrims, descended upon the city of Chartres, in a walking pilgrimage of about 100 kilometres from Paris to Chartres over two and a half days, to hear a Solemn High Pontifical Mass in the traditional Roman rite sung in Latin in the great cathedral of Chartres, a rite for which that cathedral was designed, I need hardly add.
His Eminence Cardinal Müller was the celebrant at that Mass for Whit Monday.
It is estimated that some 30,000 attended – so many, in fact, that many of the pilgrims could not get anywhere near the cathedral and had to sit on the causeway leading up to it, watching events on a big screen.
