Sunday was the Feast of Corpus Christi, called Corpus Domini here. Well, actually it was Thursday, but in Italy, like some other countries where it is not considered a national holiday, the church holds its celebration on the following Sunday.
Not only are First Holy Communions held on this day, but some towns also still celebrate with the “infiorata”. The infiorata is a flower art festival in which flower petals are used to create works of art in the street and in the church, creating a “carpet”. After mass, this carpet is used for the traditional procession.
Our town doesn’t celebrate Corpus Domini with an infiorata, but our neighboring town of Carunchio does.
Despite the difficulty in finding flowers due to the recent rainstorms, they came up with some beautiful works of art.
They were protected with tents up until it was almost time for the procession so that they didn’t get ruined by the heat of the sun.
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Those are really beautiful. They don’t do them around here (at least that I know of) but I wish they did.
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Mary Reply:
June 8th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
This was the first time we were able to go see them. Quite a few towns in Abruzzo actually do them too. Carunchio is very small, so I’m sure that the larger cities had much grander displays.
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We saw some beautiful ones in Magliano dei Marsi but the difference was they had used coloured wood-chips. I am sure real petals smell wonderful, the woodchips did make you feel that you were in a stable…
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Mary Reply:
June 8th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
The ginestra petals are fantastic Sammy. I’m sure the wood-chip ones were pretty too though. On these I noticed that they also used sand, salt and rice for various parts of the decoration.
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Wow, they are incredible! I just wouldn’t be able to walk on them and ruin them!
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