Rising numbers prompts benediction at Cork’s historic Eucharistic Procession to move outdoors

Final prayer and benediction will take place at specially constructed platform at the National Monument on Grand Parade

Fintan Gavin, Bishop of Cork and Ross, with Cllr Tony Fitzgerald at the launch of the annual Corpus Christi Eucharistic Procession which will take place on June 22. Picture: Brian Lougheed

Rising attendance at Cork’s historic Eucharistic Procession has prompted a return of the outdoors benediction ceremony this year.

The move was announced on Wednesday night as the Bishop of Cork and Ross, Fintan Gavin, announced details of this year’s event next month, a religious event that has been a part of the social fabric of the city for almost a century.