Corpus Christi

The feast of Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, celebrates the Real Presence of the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. Proposed by Thomas Aquinas as a feast to focus solely on the Holy Eucharist, Pope Urban IV established the feast of Corpus Christi as a Solemnity in 1264.