The new CareOregon Grand Floral Starlight Parade wasn’t the only procession to move through Portland’s streets this weekend.
While marching bands, dancers, horses and elaborate floats marked the Rose Festival’s pinnacle event Saturday, Sunday’s Corpus Christi procession wound through the same city in near silence, broken only by the occasional choir hymn rising from the crowd.
The procession drew roughly 5,000 worshipers to St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Northwest Portland to celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi, centered on the Catholic belief that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist…