ABSTRACT
On the Friday after the Feast of the Ascension, the Abbey and community in Weingarten, Germany, celebrate the Blutritt, a ceremony dedicated to Weingarten’s relic of the Holy Blood of Christ. Thousands of people line the streets to watch and then join a procession on horseback led by the der heilige Blutritter, who carries the relic in front of him on a route through the city and the surrounding countryside. Now, of course, those not in Weingarten can see the procession on YouTube.1
