To complete the blessing of the Second Crusade, Eugenius III went north to St Denis and celebrated Easter with full ceremony and huge congregations. Until the Feast of St Denis after Whitsun he put right some errors and then played a part in the handing of the Oriflamme to Louis VII. On the Feast itself Louis visited the monks, then humbly spent some time in the leper colony outside. After that he went and prostrated himself before Eugenius III, abbot Suger and the monks, being permitted to approach and kiss the relic of the saint. He requested the Oriflamme from the abbey before his whole family and court, and was given it in a hot and emotional ceremony, in which his mother and wife suffered badly. He then received symbols of a pilgrim and a blessing from the pope, and dined with the monks