Feast of Corpus Christi celebrated in Croatia
The Feast of Corpus Christi, a Catholic festival observed on the second Thursday after Whitsun, is a public holiday in Croatia, and this year, this moveable feast falls on 19 June.
The marking of Corpus Christ also called The Day of Thanksgiving for the Institution of Holy Communion in the Church of England, started in the 13th century. The institution of Corpus Christi as a feast in the Christian calendar resulted from approximately forty years of work on the part of Juliana of Liège, a 13th-century Norbertine canoness, CE Report quotes HINA.
The Feast of Corpus Christi is also associated with processions. The first Corpus Christi procession was held in Cologne in the 1270s, and this custom spread throughout many Catholic countries during the 14th century. In the procession, the priest carries the consecrated host in a monstrance, while the faithful sing, pray, and carry flowers.
The holiday is observed as a public holiday in a score of countries where Catholics make up a majority. Croatia introduced it as a non-working bank holiday in the early 2000ies.
