Events at
Saint-Pierre

18 April 2025 will mark the 550th anniversary of Lessin's tradition of Good Friday in its current form: service, procession and entombment. Tradition has it that a document dated 1475 refers to an event taking place in St Peter's Church on Good Friday.

The current trilogy is therefore the heir to a custom dating back to at least the 15th century. Although what took place in Lessines on that special day of Christ's death is still unknown, the rite has gradually developed into what it is today.

Here's how it goes:

- 7.25pm: the Penitents enter Saint-Pierre church.

- 7.30pm: solemn Passion Office.

- Around 9pm: Switching off of public and private lighting in the old town, exit of the procession of the Entombment of the Penitents (route: parvis Saint-Pierre, Grand‘ rue, Grand’ place, rue des Moulins, rue des Quatre Fils Aymon, Résidence René Magritte (CPAS), rue Général Freyberg, Grand' rue, Parvis Saint-Pierre, église Saint-Pierre).

- Around 10.00 pm and 10.30 pm: The entombment of Christ in the chapel of Sainte-Barbe (Saint-Pierre church), known as ‘the sepulchre’.

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