Corpus Christi procession draws 20,000 worshipers

UP TO 20,000 Catholics lined the streets and joined in Cork’s 80th Corpus Christi Eucharistic procession which began at the North Cathedral and ended at Daunt Square yesterday.

Cork’s growing immigrant community were also represented with large numbers of Poles, Latvians and Lithuanians present.

Bishop of Cork and Ross, Bishop John Buckley carried the blessed sacrament through the streets of the city while soprano Cara O’Sullivan sang Ave Maria and Panis Angelicus. The auxiliary bishop of Southwark Dioceses, Bishop Patrick Lynch, from Bishopstown joined in prayers.