The Great Procession of Tournai

Statues and reliquary of Saint Nicholas St-Quentin's Church, statuette, Tournai plate, 17^th century.
Church of St-Nicholas, gilt wooden statue and reliquary, Tournai plate, both 18^th century.

St Nicholas was the bishop of Myre during the NicÈe concile at the begining of the 4^th century. Patron of children,of sailors and in the Middle Age, patron of merchants, he was in Tournai one of the patron of Our Lady's parish and is now patron of the church bearing his name.