Corporal of Bolsena
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The Corporal of Bolsena dates from a Eucharistic miracle in Bolsena, Italy, in 1263 when a consecrated host began to bleed onto a corporal, the small cloth upon which the host and chalice rest during
This is the blood-stained linen corporal brought to Orvieto from Bolsena.
A tapestry depicting the Miracle of Bolsena as part of the Corpus Christi procession in Orvieto
The Corporal of Bolsena processing out of Orvieto's Duomo as part of Corpus Christi celebrations
"Bloody bread": S. marcescens growing on bread
Feast of Corpus Christi
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The Feast of Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, is a liturgical solemnity celebrating the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; the feast is obs
Corporal of Bolsena
…under no obligation to believe it although they may do so freely. Pope Urban IV makes no mention of it in the bull by which he established the feast of Corpus Christi, although the legend of the miracle is set in his lifetime and is claimed by its partisans to have determined him in his purpose of establishing the…
Corpus Christi procession. Oil on canvas by Carl Emil Doepler.
A stained glass window in the Saint Mary Basilica in Tongeren
Silver-gilt Corpus Christi monstrance of Toledo, Spain
Procession in Ottersweier, Germany