Thousands of Catholics in Baden-Württemberg celebrated the holiday of Corpus Christi with carpets of flowers and processions on Thursday. There were processions in many cities.
Corpus Christi in all its glory in the Black Forest
Im Black Forest Corpus Christi was celebrated in full splendor in Villingen – and for the first time in three years without restrictions. Many windows and house facades in the city center and along the procession route were also decorated with flowers and flags. See and read more about this here.
In Hufingen the parish had already canceled the well-known large flower carpet through the city a week before the holiday. “Due to the location of the flowers and the variety of flowers, it is unfortunately not possible this year to lay the large continuous carpet of flowers,” said the parish office.
But there was also a nice party in Hüfingen with a small carpet of flowers. The helpers lay out the carpets of flowers early in the morning at six o’clock. You can see more pictures here.
Precision work with tweezers – Michael Moog on the second altar carpet in Hüfingen | Image: Roland Sigwart
Festival service in Pfullendorf
In Freiburg, the procession took place for the first time after a four-year Corona break, the archdiocese announced. The procession was also broadcast live on the Internet there, and a drone camera accompanied the procession through Freiburg’s old town from the air.
In Pfullendorf, the Catholic Christians celebrated with a festival service and a procession and carpets of flowers. You can see pictures and a video here.
With flowers against the war
In many places in the country, believers laid artistic carpets made of colorful flowers. In Riedlingen (district of Biberach), the faithful turned against war with a carpet of flowers. You could see a dove and the word “Peace”.
On Corpus Christi in Riedlingen, children and mothers lay a carpet of flowers with a message of peace made of colorful blossoms | Image: Thomas Warnack, dpa
The focus of the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi on the second Thursday after Pentecost is the Eucharist – the transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. The name, which originated around 750 years ago, means “Body of the Lord”.
The festival goes back to a vision of the nun Juliana of Liège in 1209. Pope Urban IV made it a general church festival in 1264. Since the 13th century, the consecrated host has been carried through the streets as the body of Christ in processions in many parishes. (dpa/sk)
2023-06-08 16:37:37
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