After waiting in vain for government decisions that would have allowed us to consider opening the Arès Pilgrimage in 2021, the Management Committee of L’Œuvre du Pèlerinage d’Arès met at length this morning to examine all possible aspects of the question, and must resign itself to closing the Arès Pilgrimage to the public in 2021, as it already had to do in 2020.

Pilgrimage to Arès 2021 is cancelled because of the Covid pandemic

I can neither list nor describe here all the points that we are unable to meet in order to comply with the regulations in force again this year. I can only say that they are numerous. Both the layout of the holy places and the absence of an authoritarian service to maintain strict discipline of the Pilgrims and the upkeep of the premises, equipment, etc. in the regulatory and sanitary state currently required do not allow us to open the Pilgrimage without attracting us serious administrative problems.
The Pèlerinage d’Arès is a 1905-type religious association subject to permanent controls by the departmental and municipal security services.

Please be assured that I am the first to be mortified by this situation.

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