noon
Masters and servants were seen embracing each other and weeping , the former lamenting their severity -- the latter , their dishonesty . Old enemies , who met each other on the street , grasped hands and led each other about like children , singing hymns of praise . It was something like the Golden Age as imagined by the Fathers of the early Church . The air was as mild as that of a spring day , and the sky was clear till noon . Then it became overclouded . No one ate or drank , but all bathed and put on their festal attire . During the afternoon processions of priests and monks marched through the town , and sang litanies , in which the people joined .