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Paradoxplace Rome and Central Italy Pages
Corpus Domini* Sunday at the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari in Lazio, south east of Rome Preparing the Infiorata - A new look at our 2004 photos
LINK TO PHOTOS OF CASAMARI ABBEY
LINK TO PHOTOS OF FOSSANOVA ABBEY
LINK TO INSIGHT PAGE ON THE CISTERCIAN ORDER
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*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, which have been being prepared for 700 years. Upcoming Corpus Domini days are Thursdays 7 June 2012 and 30 May 2013 (with medieval processions in towns such as Orvieto on the following Sunday).
Upcoming Religious Festival Dates
Link to the Infiorata at the Abbazia di Chiaravalle della Colomba in Emilia-Romagna
Street Infiorata at Spello (Umbria)
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