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Corpus Domini* Sunday at the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari in  Lazio, south east of Rome - Preparing the Infiorata

 

LINK TO PHOTOS OF CASAMARI ABBEY

LINK TO PHOTOS OF FOSSANOVA ABBEY

LINK TO INSIGHT PAGE ON THE CISTERCIAN ORDER

 

 

*Corpus Christi is the English version of the same feast day.  In fact when the Cistercians were invented in 1098 there was neither - the Corpus Domini Feast Day was only introduced into the Church calendar in 1312 by the French Pope Urban IV.  The feast day became the occasion for major Eucharistic processions and infioratas like this one.  Upcoming Corpus Domini days are Thursdays 22 May 2008, 11 June 2009, 3 June 2010 (with processions in towns such as Orvieto on the following Sunday).

 

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Link to the  Infiorata at the Abbazia di Chiaravalle della Colomba in Emilia-Romagna

Street Infiorata at Spello (Umbria)

 

 

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