The Great Procession of Tournai

Our Lady Helper of the Sick Cathedral Church, polychrome copy of the statue in the porch.

Since 1390, the Virgin Mary is honored at the cathedral under the name Virgo Infirmorum . The city of Tournai never forgot the recoveries obtained with her interceding and considers her as its patron. The big statue of Our Lady of the Sick stands up at the gate of the cathedral, at exactly the same place where the plague victims gathered. The statue is carried at the Procession by members of the medical profession.