Corpus Christi, the Feast of the Sacrement, is the big religious festival of the year in Toledo, Spain. All the young girls and boys, dressed in white, go to their first communion; processing through the spectator lined streets to the cathedral. They also walk through rows of white gloved soldiers with their bayonets drawn - symbolising the close links between the church and the military state. 1955 Beggars plead for money from the festival crowds as Spain, which spends so much on it's Army and it's Church, has little official money left to help the poor. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell