FIESTA DEL CORPUS CHRISTI

It is one of the oldest religious festivals on the island, since since 1496, the year of the conquest of Tenerife, the Cabildo order to be held following the Sevillian model and that all the guilds of trades carrying each one its characteristic pendant.

Throughout the centuries the procession of the Beas has remained one of the main festivals of the city. However, the revival in La Laguna of tradition, along with other cities of the islands, of making carpets with flower petals or colorful lands, of great wealth, has joined in recent religious significance. art, which cover the entire process route and are destroyed when it passes.

The celebration of Corpus Christi that is celebrated at the beginning of the month of June, has as main element the procession. Around her other acts and regozijos were developed, as Viera and Clavijo recounts, that on the occasion of the birth of Felipe II, the Cabildo ordered a series of celebrations, to realize the day of Corpus, in 1527.

The feast of Corpus Christi was instituted in 1264 by Pope Urban IV, becoming one of the main celebrations of the liturgical calendar, with the main objective of the Eucharistic exaltation. It was the devotion to the Mystery that led Pope John XXIII to turn it into law later, going on at that time to carry out the procession with the sacred ostia, an act that gradually left the celebration in the background liturgical

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