Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach 4:45 p.m., March 23, 2022
Why were the pope's feet kissed?
The story goes that Pope Leo III (750-816), having his hand kissed one day by a very beautiful lady, found himself so shamefully troubled that his conscience commanded him a new rule: henceforth his feet would be kissed - or mules.
Today, the rite of the washing of the feet takes place every year, on Maundy Thursday, but it is the pope himself who kneels to clean the feet of the faithful... From the Roman emperor Diocletian ( 244-312), which forced her defeated enemies to kiss her feet, at the origins of the expression “take your foot”, Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach tells you stories of feet that have marked history.