Corpus Domini: l'infiorata |
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PHOTO GALLERY 2002
by Valter Cucchiari
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PHOTO GALLERY 2003
by Mario Benvenuti
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PHOTO GALLERY 2004 by Maurizio Firmani |
 PHOTO GALLERY 2005 by Giovanni Ciucci |
The harvest of the green is initiated a couple of days in advance, followed by the more delicate harvest of the petals and of the buds; the sketches are arranged with the neighborhood, some outlines of cardboard or sketches on paper are prepared or taken back by those of the past years.
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The evening of the eve everything is ready: sketches, petals, leaves and coloured dusts... everybody set the alarm clock and, on the following morning in the street, bent with patience, focusing each on his own bit of ornament, small part of a project that often concerns the whole road.
In 1263, a Bohemian priest came to Bolsena. He had some
doubts on the transubstantiation (the kinds of the bread and the wine
stay unchanged while the substance transustanzia in body and blood of
Christ). During the celebration of the Holy Mass, the Wafer began to drip
blood, drenching the corporal and the stone of the altar. The pope Urbano
IV was in the near city of Orvieto and the people of Bolsena, that had
assisted to the prodigy, took the flax of the bloody corporal and brought
it in solemn procession to the Pontiff, which recognized the miracle and
instituted the solemnity of the Corpus Domini.
«I tell you I shall not drink again of this fruit
of the vine
until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.»
(Mt, 26,29)
The marian cult in Valentano is deeply felt and, also in the sketches for the solemnity of the Corpus Domini, it never misses a homage to the Holy Mother. «And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars» (Ap. 12,1)
«Because there is one bread, we who are many are
one body,
for we all partake of the one bread. .»
(I Cor 10,17)
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