(ZENIT News / Paris, 09.23.2026).- With Pope Leo XIV’s arrival in France just days away, scheduled for Friday, September 25, 2026, we must acknowledge the extraordinary display of solidarity across the country in creating the vestments and liturgical objects needed for the celebrations presided over by the Pope.
A wide range of talents and significant collaboration were required to ensure the beauty of the liturgies during this historic journey.
Companies, artisans, social integration workshops, religious communities, and numerous volunteers mobilized across various regions of France to create albs, stoles, altar cloths, crosses, and various liturgical ornaments and furnishings.
A notable example is undoubtedly the company Les Tissages de Charlieu, located north of Roanne. The company donated the fabric needed for the stoles and kept its looms running day and night. In total, 5,000 eco-friendly Jacquard stoles were produced to vest all the priests and deacons attending the three Masses celebrated in Paris, Lourdes, and Metz.
The cutting and sewing of the stoles were then entrusted to the seamstresses at Tri d’Emma, a social integration workshop run by the Emmaus Movement and located in Villerest, south of Roanne. Subsequently, also in the Loire region, more than 120 local volunteers carried out a large-scale home-based ironing operation. However, other examples of solidarity are also worth mentioning.
In Troyes, the Poor Clares crafted altar cloths for the celebrations at Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Place de la Concorde in Paris. In Sannois, north of Paris, young cabinetmaking students created an oak cathedra (papal chair) for the Pope, to be used at the Stade de France. And in Lourdes, the Chéret workshop and the Shrine’s liturgical workshop were commissioned to create liturgical vestments for the Pope: within two months, they provided seven chasubles, seven stoles, and the papal mitre.
Finally, this mobilization extended to logistics as well, encompassing the packing and transport of vestments and liturgical objects to the various places of worship. Several local companies also generously offered their services.
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