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Altar of repose during Corpus Christi in 1946, Dorion

Old sepia photograph, young girls, hands joined, all dressed in white stand on a house porch decorated with flags and religious accessories, the girls personify angels as they stand on each side of an altar of repose.

Source: Centre d’archives de Vaudreuil-Soulanges

Up until the 1960s, Corpus Christi, celebrated 60 days after Easter, was the cause for great manifestations of piety in the parish streets.

The procession of children, musicians, clerics and parishioners, followed the priest holding the Holy Sacrament under a decorated canopy. The various altars of repose installed along the way were places of gathering, of prayer and rest. It was a great honor to be chosen to install an altar of repose in front of one’s residence.