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Corpus Christi is the Catholic feast that celebrates the presence of the
body of Christ in the holy wafer. It is held in June and begins on the
Thursday after Trinity Sunday. A solemn and magnificent procession
through the streets, where representatives of the local government walk
side by side with churchmen and other dignitaries, and followed by the
local people, through streets that are strewn with sweet-smelling
cypress branches and flowers.
The Corpus Christi festival was created in 1246 in Liege, Belgium, and
after the Archbishop of that town was elected Pope it was later adopted
throughout the rest of Europe. It reached Spain, first in Toledo 1280,
and then in Seville 1282, and the rest of Spain by 14 century. Corpus
Christi festival was particularly popular in 16th and 17th centuries.
The solemn processions represent the power of the Catholic church.
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