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Corpus Christi / The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Also called: Boże Ciało (Polish), Fête-Dieu (French), Fronleichnam (German), Feast of the Blessed Sacrament
4 June 2026
Catholic
Corpus Christi is a Catholic feast celebrating the bread and wine of communion as the real presence of Jesus. In Spain and Latin America, streets fill with flower carpets and processions carrying the Blessed Sacrament under golden canopies — some of the most spectacular sights in world Christianity.
In England it often falls on a Sunday. Eden lists pilgrimages to Rome and Catholic shrines where Corpus Christi processions draw huge crowds.
At a glance
- Type
- solemnity
- Date type
- Moveable (changes with Easter)
- Regions
- Global
- Themes
- Birth of Christ, Covenant
- Liturgical colour
- White, Gold
- Holy Day of Obligation
- Yes (Catholic)
Common questions
Corpus Christi is observed on 4 June 2026. Moveable feasts shift each year; fixed feasts stay on the same calendar date.
The feast celebrating the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. Established by Pope Urban IV in 1264 following visions of Bl. Juliana of Liège, with the famous office composed by St. Thomas Aquinas. The feast's most distinctive feature is the outdoor Corpus Christi procession, in which the Blessed Sacrament is carried through streets decorated with flowers and altars — a tradition mainta
It is associated with Catholic. It falls in the Ordinary Time season of the liturgical year.
Related holidays
- Corpus Christi Processions (Germany, Poland, Austria, Bavaria)4 June 2026Read guide
- All Saints' DayNovember 1Read guide
- Trinity Sunday31 May 2026Read guide
- Nativity of St. John the BaptistJune 24 (exactly six months before Christmas; Luke 1:26 sets Gabriel's visit to Mary six months after Elizabeth's conception)Read guide
