MALAGASY REPUBLIC: COLOURFUL CEREMONY MARKS ST HUBERT'S DAY AND OPENING OF HUNTING SEASON.

Record ID: 588372

  • Title: MALAGASY REPUBLIC: COLOURFUL CEREMONY MARKS ST HUBERT'S DAY AND OPENING OF HUNTING SEASON.
  • Date: 2nd May 1970
  • Summary: 1. GV CROWD. 0.06 2. SV TILT DOWN FROM FLAGS TO PRIEST. 0.13 3. SV CROWD PAN TO MEN ON HORSEBACK. 0.24 4. SV PEOPLE ON HORSES (2 SHOTS) 0.29 5. SCU PRIEST AND OFFICER 0.32 6. CU BADGE ON OFFICER'S SHIRT ZOOM OUT TO SV OFFICERS. 0.40 7. SCU AUDIENCE. 0.43 8. SV PAN PEOPLE WITH DOGS. 0.48 9. SCU PRIESTS PAN TO CROSS ON TABLE. 0.53 10. GV AUDIENCE. 0.58 Initials CP/VS/PN/LAD Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 17th May 1970 13:00
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  • Location: TANANARIVE, MALAGASY REPUBLIC
  • Country: Madagascar
  • Reuters ID: LVA6E8Y50OJJXFL59CNWFQL9LW6F
  • Story Text: IN THE MALAGASY REPUBLIC, MAY THE FIRST, MARKS THE OPENING OF THE HUNTING SEASON AND, IN MALAGASY, THE BIRTHDAY OF ST. HUBERT -- PATRON SAINT OF HUNTERS. ST HUBERT'S DAY IS NORMALLY CELEBRATED ON NOVEMBER 3RD, BUT IN THE MALAGASY REPUBLIC THERE WAS NO SAINT'S DAY TO COINCIDE WITH THE OPENING OF THE HUNTING SEASON. SO, IN MALAGASY ST HUBERT'S BIRTHDAY WAS MOVED TO MAY I.

    THE CEREMONY TAKES PLACE EVERY YEAR ON A PRIVATE ESTATE LOCATED A FEW KILOMETRES FROM TANANARIVE, NOT FAR FROM A SANCTUARY WHICH LIES IN THE MIDST OF PADDY FIELDS AND IS CALLED THE ISLAND OF BIRDS.

    HELD IN THE EARLY MORNING MIST, THE COLOURFUL CEREMONY INCLUDES AN OPEN-AIR MASS, THE BLESSING OF THE BREAD FOLLOWED BY THE BLESSING OF HORSES, DOGS AND HUNTERS.

    THERE ARE TEN THOUSAND HUNTERS IN THE MALAGASY REPUBLIC. EACH SEASON SEVERAL MILLION SPECIMENS OF GROUND AND WING GAME ARE SHOT.
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