Paul outside the walls ( see video) in Rome. Examples of the procession in Italy can be found in Venice and St. The feast features a procession that follows Mass, often into the streets or around a public square. It is held in the last days of May or the first days of June, depending on the date of Easter that year. The origins of the feast are in Liège, Belgium, in the 13th century. The feast of Corpus Domini, the Body of the Lord, also known as Corpus Christi in many parts of the world, is an occasion for devotion to the belief in the real presence of Christ in the consecrated host. The feast has become such a hallmark of the city’s identity that the local government is petitioning to have them recognized on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage.

Running the length of the old city, they serve as an adornment for Sunday morning’s Eucharistic procession, a manifestation of civic pride, and a catechetical device. The carpets, which use new designs each year, are built on the Saturday night before the feast, often late into the night, and last only until the end of the Corpus Domini procession the following morning. In Camaiore, a small city in Tuscany nestled between mountains and the sea, one of the highlights of the year is the feast of Corpus Domini, when townspeople come out to make and view brightly colored sawdust tappeti, or carpets, and to participate in the religious procession whose route they are built to decorate.

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