Polish Catholics mark feast of Corpus Christi
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
20.06.2019 14:00
Hundreds of thousands of faithful took to the streets of towns and villages across Poland in religious processions on Thursday as Roman Catholics marked the feast of Corpus Christi.
A Corpus Christi procession in the village of Witów in Poland's southern Małopolskie province on Thursday.Photo: PAP/Grzegorz Momot
Some were dressed in traditional folk costumes, adding colour to the traditional processions, held on a day which is a public holiday in Poland.
Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz (centre) leads ceremonies in the capital Warsaw. Photo: PAP/Marcin Obara
The feast of Corpus Christi is one of the oldest in the Catholic Church and has been marked since the 13th century.
During Poland’s often-turbulent history, especially when the nation was under foreign rule for 123 years until 1918, Corpus Christi processions were strongly patriotic as well as religious in flavour.
Girls strew the way with flower petals in a long-standing tradition during a Corpus Christi procession in Warsaw. Photo: PAP/Marcin Obara
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Source: IAR, TVP