Corpus Christi at Manly: The Procession

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Title

Corpus Christi at Manly: The Procession

Subject

Catholic, Catholicism, celebration, Christ, Corpus Christi, crowd, Eucharist, feast day, feast of Corpus Christi, Hugh of St-Cher, Jacques Panteléon, Juliana of Liège (1193-1258), laity, Latin Rite, Legion of Mary, Manly, Mass, medieval ritual, mystic, mysticism, New South Wales, NSW, nun, Papal Bull, Pope Urban IV, procession, religious ceremony, Robert de Thorete (d.1246), sacrament, St Juliana, Sydney, Ted Hood (1911-2000),Transiturus de hoc mundo, veil, veneration, vestments, vision

Description

A photograph taken by photographer Ted Hood of the procession following the Corpus Christi Mass at Manly, New South Wales, in 1934.

Corpus Christi is an annual feast day observed by the Catholic Church on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday. It celebrates the Eucharist (or ‘Blessed Sacrament’) as the blood and body of Christ, and is often followed by a procession. Corpus Christi was established as a feast day in the thirteenth century after revelations by a Belgian nun, Juliana of Liège (St Juliana), that she had experienced repeated visions of Christ and had been instructed to petition for a feast day to celebrate the sacrament. Juliana disclosed her visions to Robert de Thorete, the Bishop of Liège, Hugh of St-Cher and Jacques Panteléon, then the Archdeacon of Liège. Robert de Thorete used his power as a bishop (with the authority to order a feast in his diocese) to convene a synod in 1246 and order the celebration of Corpus Christi to be observed the following year. In 1261, Jacques Panteléon became Pope Urban IV. In 1264 he published a Papal Bull, Transiturus de hoc mundo , in which he ordered the annual celebration of Corpus Christi and the granting of indulgences to the faithful for their attendance at Mass and at the Office.

Creator

Hood, Ted

Source

State Library of New South Wales

Publisher

State Library of New South Wales

Date

1934

Rights

State Library of New South Wales

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