Corpus Christi at the Cathedral in Münster, May 22, 2008

This is the beginning of the Corpus Christi procession in the Cathedral of St. Paul in Münster on May 22, 2008. The order of the procession is: Crucifer and attendants; Honor guards bearing the standards of their societies; the Cathedral Choir; the acolytes; the nuns of the Klarissenkonvent; extra clergy and the canons of the Cathedral Chapter; the thurifer; the Sacred Ministers, with the Bishop bearing the Monstrance and his attendants; the Knights of Malta; and finally, the congregation.

I apologize for my singing voice in the first part of the video -- I have been plagued with a horrible cold the past few days; once I realized that I really couldn't (or at least, shouldn't) sing, I stopped.

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[HarriusFigulus]

Other than the Knights and Dames of Malta (who come towards the end, I think, and are distinguishable by their black and white cloaks with the Maltese cross thereon), they are members of various local honor guilds -- not lay orders in the technical sense, but something more like local German variants of Knights of Columbus or Elks.

[emschap]

I don't know who the gentlemen in the robes with the white crosses are, but they are not Knights of Malta. The cross on the church mantle of the Order of Malta is the eight pointed Maltese cross.

[ChristainPatriot01]

Thank you. I thought the Order of Malta wore red?

[ChristainPatriot01]

What lay order would the gentlemen in green and red and blue etc,etc be with?