This Sunday, Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, Eric Ciotti, President of the Alpes-Maritimes Department, Monsignor Andrรฉ Marceau, Bishop of Nice, and Father Franรงois-Rรฉgis Jamain, Pastor of the “Le Vลu” – Saint-Jean Baptiste parish, will renew the Vow of Nice, a local tradition that celebrates its 183rd anniversary this year.
After the Lauds at the Cathedral of Saint Rรฉparate, a procession will go to Saint Franรงois Square where the Mayor of Nice will renew the Vow.
Then, the procession will continue to the Church of the Vow. Monsignor Marceau, Bishop of Nice, will celebrate the Holy Mass before a second renewal of the vow by Christian Estrosi.
In the afternoon, at 4 PM, the choir “La Sidorella” will give a concert in the same church.
The Vow Festival in Nice
For a long time, people were helpless in the face of the scourge of epidemics. They indeed provoked contradictory reactions, from collective hysteria to the emergence of new fraternities, embodied by the Penitents’ confraternities.
The last epidemic that left a mark in the collective memory of Nice is recorded negatively: it was cholera, which in 1832, threatened Nice and was averted by what was understood at the time as the conjunction of divine intercession and human medicine.
This fear left a magnificent reminder in stone, the Church of the Vow, and a tradition, the solemn procession.
