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Corpus Christi flower carpets
Towns from Tenerife to Poland pave their streets with petals for the Corpus Christi procession.
What happens
On the feast of Corpus Christi the consecrated host is carried through the streets, and in many Catholic towns the route is covered with a carpet made for that one walk. In La Orotava, on Tenerife, and in Sitges, near Barcelona, the carpets are of petals. In Spycimierz, in Poland, villagers lay about two kilometres of flowers. Brazilian towns use dyed sawdust, salt and coffee grounds as well. Neighbours work from before dawn, and the procession crosses in minutes. Some places keep the feast on the following Sunday.
The flowers
Also part of it, and being written: Sawdust carpet (The dyed sawdust version common in Brazil and Central America.).
Original text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Feast of Corpus Christi" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Rose: User:Tigerente, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dianthus: Darkone ( talk · contribs ), CC BY-SA 1.0, source
- Flower carpet: Francisco Conde Sánchez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source