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Here is a scene from a French choir Prise d'Aube ceremony. We have two scenes. One the boys in church, forming a procession toward the alrar. And then what happans whn the boys get to the front.
In the first scene of the ceremony you can see the choristers in both their school boy outfits and their auubes. If you look closely at the altar you can see the priest and an altar boy at the altar.
All the boys are choristers. A chorister tells us, "We usually have two costumes. One religious robe (aube), and another school uniform. The boys wearing the school uniform are choristers waiting to receive their aube. The boys wearing the aube are older choirboys who already received their aube last time. One boy is very tall. Maybe that is why he was plced at the end. Boys did not all enter the choir at the same age and perhaos he is just very tall. You can not see it from the back, but the established choristers in the aubes are holding the aubes that the priest will hand to the new choristets.
Here we see what hppened when the boys reaced the front where the priest was waiting for them. (figure 1). I think the altar boy is not one of the choristers in this ceremony, because his robe is a little different. See the red string hangs from his robe. Besides the red string, you can see that the altar boy's costume also has no hood, unlike the choir boys' aube. Notice that the established choristers each hold the new aubes that the priest will hand to the new chioristers. Notice the parents waiting to take a photograoh whhen their son was presented with his aube.
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