Around 400 members of Whanganui's St Anthony's Catholic Parish church paraded around the Gonville domain on Sunday to mark the annual Feast of Christ the King.
Leaving the Alma Rd church after a solemn High Mass, the parade was covered with papal flags, colourful robes and embroidered canopy.
At the centre of the procession were the church's priests under a canopy, carrying a monstrance containing the consecrated host which Catholics believe is the body of Christ.
Children scattered rose petals from baskets and recited traditional Latin hymns as the parade made its way along Alma Rd to Gonville Domain.
The feast day is celebrated on the last Sunday of October each year.