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The institution of Corpus Christi as a feast in the Christian calendar resulted from approximately forty years of work on the part of Juliana of Liège, a 13th-century Norbertine canoness, also known as Juliana de Cornillon, born in 1191 or 1192 in Liège, Belgium, a city where there were groups of women dedicated to Eucharistic worship. Guided ...
The Thursday after Trinity Sunday is observed as the Feast of Corpus Christi. In some countries, including the United States , [ 11 ] Canada , and Spain , it may be celebrated on the following Sunday, when the faithful are more likely to attend Mass and be able to celebrate the feast.
Juan de Medrano (b. 16th century, Ágreda, Soria) was a Moorish shoemaker from Ágreda, Soria, known in local folklore and historical accounts for an extraordinary miracle that took place on Corpus Christi day, 20 June 1527. [1]
On June 1, Bishop McManus will ordain new priests at St. Paul’s Cathedral, and June 2, the world will celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.
(variable): Feast of Corpus Christi [3] first Monday of August: Emancipation Day, marks the end of slavery in the British Empire in 1834. [4] August 11: Carnival; October 19: National Heroes Day, commemorating the 1983 killing of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, several of his cabinet colleagues and civilians at Fort Rupert, also called ...
Transiturus de hoc mundo [1] is the papal bull issued on 11 August 1264 by Pope Urban IV in which the feast of Corpus Christi (festum corporis) was declared throughout the entire Latin Church. [2] This was the first papally sanctioned universal feast in the history of the Latin Church. [3]
Each day in the Catholic liturgical calendar has a rank. The five basic ranks for the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, in descending order of importance, are as follows: Solemnity — the highest ranking type of feast day. It commemorates an event in the life of Jesus or Mary, or celebrates a Saint important to the whole Church or the local ...
They were traditionally presented on the feast day of Corpus Christi (a movable feast on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, between 23 May and 24 June) and were performed in the city of York, from the mid-fourteenth century until their suppression in 1569.