Pentecost is celebrated on the 7th Sunday after Easter Sunday. Back in clips on the history and meaning of this Christian holiday and the debates that resulted from the questioning of the holiday or not of Pentecost Monday in schools and businesses.
Report dedicated to the "procession of nine leagues" that has been taking place in Magnac Laval since the end of the 16th century. It is 54 kilometres long and gathers faithful on Pentecost Monday in honour of Saint Maximin. The journalist looks back on its origin and history. He interviews an old man who followed the ritual from 1935 to 1974.
Reactions of employees and a company leader on the abolition of a holiday for the financing of the Solidarity plan for the elderly and people with disabilities.
Retrospective of the various government decisions concerning the solidarity day for elderly and dependent persons and the choice of the working holiday. Prime Minister Jean Pierre RAFFARIN let each rector of academy choose the holiday that will be deleted. The Minister of National Education, François FILLON, told him that Pentecost Monday would be worked in all schools in France from 2005. Finally, the 2004 law stipulates that the choice of Pentecost Monday is a recommendation and not an oblogation. Alternating commentary on infographics, illustrations and images from the Prime Minister’s speech archives.
Jean Pierre RAFFARIN has decided to let each company decide which day of leave will be abolished to finance the dependency of the elderly. The journalist interviews workers to find out how they feel and what holiday they would accept to lose. Reactions of employees and Jean Claude Mailly, general secretary of the union Force Ouvrière to the abolition of a public holiday.
Sujet consacré au pèlerinage traditionaliste à Chartres pour le week-end de la Pentecôte. Les images de la marche et de la messe sont ponctuées par des interviews de pèlerins et du révérend père Puybaraud. Au même moment, un contre pèlerinage allant de Chartres à Paris était organisé par les intégristes restés fidèles à Monseigneur Lefebvre, une messe était célébrée sur une place de la capitale.
Father Dubois, professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explains the significance of the feast of Pentecost. It emphasizes the concordance of the feasts of Chavouot (feast of the gift of the Torah for the Jews) and of Pentecost (gift of the Holy Spirit for the Christians).