Feast of the Body of the Lord in Bolsen (Italy)

Main article: Calendar of world festivals The summer cycle of holidays begins in Italy with the holiday Corpus Domini ('the body of the lord'), it is celebrated on Thursday following Trinity Sunday. This is one of the most recent church holidays in Italy, It was introduced by Pope Urban IV on September 8, 1264 and jon obliged the church to celebrate it annually. Holiday in honor of the Bolsen miracle: the blood of Christ appeared on the area for communion. In the summer of 1263, a priest named Peter of Prague began to doubt the real presence of Jesus. Then the priest went on a pilgrimage to Rome to pray at Peter's grave and dispel doubts: being in Rome reassured him, and he went on the return journey. He stopped to spend the night in Bolsen, where doubts of faith again overpowered him. The next day, he served Mass in the grotto of Santa Cristina. The event was immortalized by Raphael in 1512 on the famous fresco of Mass Bolsen and is remembered by the Latin epigraph attached to the place of the miracle. According to tradition, at the time of consecration, Jesus' face began to bleed on the corporal. The frightened and confused priest, trying to hide this fact, completed the triumph, wrapped Jesus in a linen corporal and fled to the sacristy. On the way to the marble floor and the altar steps, blood drops fell. In 1290, Pope Urban IV ordered the construction of the Cathedral of Orvieto for Corporal. Subsequently, the cathedral was expanded by the Kapral chapel in 1364 and a new chapel in 1504

Since centuries, this holiday has entered national life, There is no reliable information whether the church tried to replace the pre-Christian holiday that already existed, but Italians continue to maintain rituals that may have been associated with the pre-Christian tradition.

On the day of the holiday, it is customary to decorate the streets along which the procession will take place with plants and flowers. Bridge lines with a carpet of living colors infiorata (from the verb infiorare - paint with colors). These carpets in some places reach 300 m in area. On this day, it is customary to hang carpets, coverings, and vases with flowers from the windows of houses and balconies