THE ORIGIN of the CORPUS CHRISTI

Begin the year 1220 with the sanctimonious Juliana's vision.
Cristo felt there was not a dedicated date to the Eucharist in the calendar of days of obligation of the Church - you said him -. Juliana tried to obtain her celebration. The proposal went through a series of vicissitudes. After interdictions, advances and backward movements, recently in 1317 the Pope Juan XXII reactualizó the edict of 1261 of the Pope Urbano N, that established the Corpus Christi like main party to save.

THE CORPUS CHRISTI IN Spain

One celebrated from before your officialization. A fact in 1280, in Seville since 1282 was at Toledo itself. The spirit of the reconquest that dominated the Spanish's sentiment of that epoch, stubbornly determined in getting free of the Arab control, he joined up in the XVth centuries and XVII, significance, symbolism, pompous show and ritualism of the baroque that the Catholic Contrarreforma impregnated.

THE CORPUS CHRISTI IN THE PERU

The Corpus Christi with the baroque Spanish spirit changed positions and imposed in America. For Papal Bula of June 1, 1537 he got ready included like main party to put in the New World. In 1540 already one observed in Lima and in 1541 the procession was headed by Francisco Pizarro.

THE CORPUS CHRISTI IN THE QOSQO

You called the cuzqueños's party to the Corpus Christi, that after the fashion of the Fertile Plain's Inca Garcilaso one celebrated in 1550, suggesting it was in effect from before. You say that you take it from the Cuzco for the captain Diego Centeno in 1547 it was few days after the Saint Sacramento's party, that was the June 9. Gracefully and irony comments the events of the procession of The Octave of 1554, when Incas' groups tied up to blows with Indians Ecuadorian cañaris themselves, that they served the Spanish.

He affects in the splendor of the party, with presentations put on stage that gentlemen were showing the Inca glories that destas were lands. The Tawantinsuyu's nations, they paraded with dances, music of the etnías, that that way were showing his identity in public as a token of his cultural possession.

The viceroy Toledo dictated in 1572, office boys regulating the party, that he got out of the ecclesiastic regulations. Detail the organization, arranging the trade unions' participation and the population's other sectors.

Without bigger foundation it is repeated that the Corpus Christi replaced the Inca Inti Raymi, although it is true than the time of the Corpus, between May June in the European calendar is about winter solstice, that after the fashion of the Fertile Plain's Inca Garcilaso it was sacred time in the Inca ceremonial.

According to the oral tradition, that you seem to have historic back, in the Corpus Christi's first processions a hundred images brought of other populations participated more than. Habit continued until the bishop Mollinedo and Angulo ( 1673-1699 ) forbade it. Ever since only the eight parish churches of Indians organized in the XVIth century, plus the one belonging to the Spanish intervene.

The baroque splendor of the Corpus of the XVIIth century, with participation of the Inca noblemen of the Qosqo, he has taken the form of all his splendor and I shine in the extraordinary checkered series known like the paintings of St. Ana's Corpus, since they belong to this parish church. Today they exhibit themselves at Religious Arte's Museum.

THE PARTY CONTINUES

The splendor of the XVIth centuries and XVII, the XVIII. continued masquerades showing the Incas' glories Showed Up. The splendor of the Corpus of 1793 described by Concolocorvo, you contrast with the ones belonging to beginnings of the XIXth century.

They become austere, own of the climate conflict independista of the moment. In the decade of thirty he had recovered pompous show, as José María Blanco, that he includes foods, with the dances that went with the processions looks at himself in the priest's notes.

As from the XXth century the historic information is plentiful, especially the one belonging to magazines and the daily newspapers Commerce and The Sun, that cover up more than a century of local history.

THE GREAT PARTY

The Corpus is the bigger popular celebration of the city. Your long cycle has two moments. Very visible one with the processions of The Slope; The Entrance, The Central Day and The Octave in the ceremonial space of the historic center. The second one comes from the parochial or small corpuses.

The Slope

This procession of Pentecostal Sunday, check mark the public and multitudinous start of the big Corpus. The Virgin of Bethlehem or Mamacha Bethlehem changes positions from her parochial temple to the one belonging to Santa Clara. Hundred of devotees and the ch'ayñas, singers that interpret beautiful songs in Quechua accompany her. You will stay in Holy White Of Egg to The Entreda.

The Entrance

Wednesday, day before of Thursday of the Corpus Christi, the images of virgins and saints, appropriate of Indians' eight colonial parish churches, they gather in the Pampa or Santa Clara's avenue. First San Jerónimo and Santiago, the only arrive that they deposit the temple. The other images and your devotees are located at the avenue and the neighbor San Francisco's plaza. When averaging the half a day start to the procession of fourteen images in the following order takes place:

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The Virgin Natividad, Naticha or of The Almudena, participate since 1955 and the Virgin of the Remedies since 1982. The Virgin Inmaculada, more known as The Linda stays in the cathedral that it is at your seat. He will appear in person in the processions of Thursday and The Octave. The procession concludes with the entrance from the images the cathedral. You place them in the same spaces that they occupy for tens of years, possibly centuries. Devotees or cofrados give start to their celebrations, meanwhile, spectators taste the chiriuchu, the corpus's own potion cuzqueño, in selling jobs installed at nearby streets to the Parade Ground.

The Central day

From too early at the cathedral bier finish fixed themselves, to dress the images, adorning them with his jewels. After Tedeum's mass, the Saint's procession starts up. Even you do thirty years the order it was reverse, first the parochial images followed of the Saint. Images go in the same order of The Entrance, with The Linda closing down the procession. Images go over the perimeter of the Bigger Plaza. If they have erected altars they stop in front of them for a moment. When the first saints have concluded their processional walk, virgins' group recently they come out of the cathedral. At the full plaza, spectators identify images, commenting his characteristics, narrating all own the stories of this party to the children.
Once the procession was finished, images reoccupy their places, where they will remain to next Thursday, day of The Octave. In the meantime, the cofrados retire to celebrate themselves, spectators again prepare to use up their chiriuchu and to buy the seasonal fruits.

The Octave

The goodbye, pullback procession is the parish churches. Begins passages three in the afternoon. Images preserve the central order of the day, in order to obey the same journey. The Virgin Inmaculada also participates.

Santa Catalina Angosta, to see off the other saints stops St. Jerónimo herself at street's corner. Receive the males' greeting and he says good-bye to the saints and virgins. The St. Ana and Santa Bárbara address themselves to their parish church, trying for to arrive before nightfall, because the very women should not walk even late, the Remedíos's Virgin, is heading for Santa Catalina's temple. The the rest of the images will remain a night more at the cathedral to celebrate the kacharpari or goodbye of the Mister of the Moderate Earthquakes. On the following day, saints return to their palToquias. The Virgin Natividad will rest in Santa Catalina's temple, going back to your Almudena's temple on Sunday.