Sunday 26 February 2017 will mark Luxembourg’s National Resistance Day; celebrations will take place at the Glacis Kapell church.

In remembrance of Luxembourg’s resistance during the Second World War, the Grand Duchy is celebrating the its National Resistance Day this Sunday, 73 years later.

The event honours those who lost their lives during the war, especially the 23 members of the resistance shot on 25 February 1944.

The day is organised as follows.

Programme:

11:00 Mass in the Glacis Kapell led by Abbot Théophile Walin with songs by the “Chorale des Exilés”.

11:50 Parade and deployment of the army

12:00 Ceremony with choir-singing, reading of a selection of texts by students from the Dikrecher Kolléisch (LCD), prayers and visits to the graves by representatives of the Catholic Church, as well as members of the Protestant and Jewish communities, and the laying of flowers in memory of the resistance, as well as a performance of “Sonnerie aux morts”