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The Feast of Corpus Christi (Ecclesiastical Latin: Dies Sanctissimi Corporis et Sanguinis Domini Iesu Christi, lit. 'Day of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ the Lord'), also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, [2] is a liturgical solemnity celebrating the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; the feast is observed by the Latin Church, in addition ...
The Thursday after Trinity Sunday is observed as the Feast of Corpus Christi. ... The latest possible date is 20 June (as in 1943 and 2038). Eastern Christianity
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.
Previously referred to as the Virgin of the Rivers or the Virgin of Yanguas since medieval times, she was renamed Our Lady of Miracles following the Corpus Christi miracle on 20 June 1527. [12] She was officially proclaimed the Patroness of Villa y Tierra by the 17 associated villages on 28 May 1644, with this designation reaffirmed on 10 June ...
(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 ...
In 1264 Pope Urban IV issued the papal bull Transiturus in which the Feast of Corpus Christi, i.e., the feast of the Body of Christ was declared a feast throughout the entire Latin Rite. [7] This was the very first papally sanctioned universal feast in the history of the Latin Rite. [8]
The Feast of Corpus Christi is one of the major public holidays for the city of Orvieto, during which the Corporal of Bolsena is paraded around the city with much fanfare. [4] The left half of a large fresco in the Apostolic Room of the Vatican Palace, titled The Mass at Bolsena, was painted by the Renaissance painter Raphael.
The feast was removed from the General Roman calendar in 1969, "because the Most Precious Blood of Christ the Redeemer is already venerated in the solemnities of the Passion, of Corpus Christi, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and in the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.