Figure 1.--Here we have an images showing another local traditional procession. Here we see the procession in Bolsena, a town near Rome. The photo shows the children participating in the procession. These children received the first Communion during the last year. In Bolsena (and in some other villages near Rome) the people makes drawings with flowers in the streets where the procession goes..

The most important religious procession in Italy is the procession in the solemnity of "Corpus Christi" (Latin for Body of Christ), or "Corpus Domini" (Latin for Body of the Lord). This feast is a special celebration of sacrament of Eucharist. The feast was introduced in the Latin Liturgy by the Pope Urban the 4th in 1263, with the bull "Transiturus". The feast takes place traditionally on Thursday, 11 days after Pentecost. Today in many places it is celebrated on Sunday, 14 days after Pentecost. This is the only procession that takes place everywhere in the Catholic Church. There are variations in the celebrations and processions involved in different towns and villages throughout Italy. Here we see the traditional processiuon in Bolsena, a town near Rome (figure 1).

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