Sentence examples for solemn procession from inspiring English sources

They carried it in solemn procession to the accompaniment of drums and trumpets to the cathedral.

In a solemn procession, four long-bed trucks flying rebel flags drove slowly through the plaza.

The Mysteries began with the march of the mystai (initiates) in solemn procession from Athens to Eleusis.

Makeshift restaurants and street vendors cater to the crowds, and until the solemn procession begins, the mood is festive.

For example, Gauguin's Old Women of Arles (Mistral) (1888) portrays a group of women moving through a flattened, arbitrarily conceived landscape in a solemn procession.

After sharing happy memories, they marched in a solemn procession to a padlocked wooden gate that stood between them and a beloved century-old swimming hole.

The other piece is Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, which turns the sunflower photographs, already hinting at religion, into solemn processions.

The celebration was initially modeled on that of the king's birthday, which had been marked annually by bell ringing, bonfires, solemn processions, and oratory.

In several cities, the Catholic brotherhoods that mark Holy Week with solemn processions have pinned white ribbons and tiny footprints to their robes in protest.

They are waved before the iconostasis during the Eucharist in the divine liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and they also are placed on either side of the papal chair in solemn processions.

This can be seen by the solemn processions and other artistic phenomena in churches.