The Corpus is the Festival the Catholic Church conmemorates the
institution of the Eucharist. It is celebrated on Thursday the sixtieth
day after Easter.
The Corpus in Seville presents today an image of major devotion,
at a time that preserves its warmth of the people. The morning of
Corpus has tradition of colorful store windows, houses and decorated
streets.
The "Custodia" and the "Sacramento" are lifted
early in the morning. It is a work of grandeur by Juan de Arfe done
somewhere between 1580 and 1587 with the collaboration of Francisco
Pacheco and Hernando de Ballesteros. It is the silver-plated style
with four decreasing bodies with a circular plan.
In the Cathedral a mass is celebrated where the "Seise"
dance dressed in red and gold before the "Custodia",
before the Archbishop, and before the city. The "Seises"
are little boys, generally ten, that sing and dance in the Cathedral
in certain festivals: "la octava de la Inmaculada" (the
eight days before December 8th), "el triduo de Carnaval"
(three days in February) and "la octava del Corpus" (eight
days before Corpus). Their costumes are gold and blue or gold and
red depending on the Festival.
At the end of the last dance the city's mayor follows the tradition
of placing the hat of one of them an old golden coin that is
later exchanged for a donation in money. At the same time the cortege
meet with the brotherhoods, clergy, or ecclesiastic chapter.
The long accompainment is distributed with effigies inbetween the crowd.
One can find: Santas Justa y
Rufina, San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Fernando, Inmaculada Concepción
de Alonso Martínez, Niño Jesús de Montañés
and Custodia Chica (16th century) with vestiges of Santa Espina.
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