Figure 1.--This Belgian boy holds a candel and wears a corsage for his First Communion. These candels were more common in Germany. The portrait is undated, but we would guess about 1910.
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Figure 1.--This Belgian boy holds a candel and wears a corsage for his First Communion. These candels were more common in Germany. The portrait is undated, but we would guess about 1910. |
We note that many of these Belgian First Communion portraits do not show the boys wearing decorative sleeve ribbons. Such ribbons were very common in France as well as in America. Apparently they were much less common in Belgium. Some boys do have these sleeve ribbons and we have noted other items such as corsages and candels. The candels are, however, much more common in neighboring Germany. Perhaps differences can be acountable for on regional or language differences in Belgium. There is, for example, a small German speaking area in eastern Belgium. As to wether there are differences as to these decorative items in the Waloon and Flemish areas of Belgium, we are not yet sure.
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