The Corpus christi day becomes sometimes in Bavaria also as “Pillory day” or “large ones Pillory day” (pillorying = decorated, affectedly its) designates. With Corpus christi it acts around the memory celebration to the installation altar sacraments. The fixed designation Corpus christi sits down from the medium high-German words “vron” (= divine), “lich” (= body, Body) and “hama (= wraps) together, over “vronlicham” to Corpus christi developed themselves further. In the center of the admiration the “body of the gentleman” is thus located, in the communion wafer is present. Originated in Corpus christi in 13.Century in the Diözese Lüttich, where the Augustiner nun Juliane of Lüttich is to have experienced a vision. At the 11.August 1264 became it by the Pope Urban IV. to the general church celebration raised.
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