Procession du St. Sacrement [game]

Title and imprint from lid of box.
Game comprising twenty cut-out wooden display pieces in various sizes, including a larger backdrop piece measuring 20 x 18.5 cm. Most are mounted on small wooden stands for easy display. Each piece has a lithograph, hand-colored image of single or groups of people, mostly clergy pasted on.
"Lith. H. Jannin, Paris"--lid of box.
Lithograph on the lid signed: A. Condert.
In France the Fête-Dieu is celebrated the Sunday after Easter with a procession headed by a priest carrying the host in a monstrance. The tradition is now dying out, but at its peak in the nineteenth century this public display of popular piety included participants from all walks of life dressed in their Sunday best. This game gave children an opportunity of recreate the solemnities by making their own marching order - including high-ranking clergy in splendid vestments, deacons swinging censers, acolytes bearing crosiers, local dignitaries, boys, girls, and toddlers arrayed before an outdoor alter and accompanied with devotional images born on the shoulders of the celebrants.