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Corpus Christi is called popularly in Italy 'Corpus Domini' or more correctly in modern Italian 'Santissimo Corpo e Sangue di Cristo.
For about 40 years now Corpus Christi is celebrated liturgically on the Sunday following the traditional date in Italy.There are a few very local exceptions,such as Orvieto where the 'miracle of Bolsena' is commemorated by a historical pageant with the liturgical procession of the Blessed Sacrament following on the Sunday.

One shouldn't forget that the Vatican is NOT in Italy and it celebrates liturgical feasts on the traditional days.

The Holydays of Obligation in Italy,apart from Sundays, are Epiphany(6th Jan)Assumption(15th Aug),All Saints (1st November)Immaculate Conception(8th December) and Christmas (25th Dec)
All other traditional festivals are either transferred to Sunday or ar not considered as of obligation.

In addition there will be local holidays of religious significance and public holidays such as 7th Dec.(Milan) and 10th August(Perugia).

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Originally posted by Forthview:

One shouldn't forget that the Vatican is NOT in Italy and it celebrates liturgical feasts on the traditional days.

Quick question to which you or someone might know the answer: are there any parish churches within the Vatican? I imagine there are various convent chapels and that sort of thing (little shacks with ceiling paintings by Michelangelo spring to mind), but otherwise presumably St Peter's is the only place where those feasts are publicly celebrated on their correct days.

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The parish church is Sta Anna, by the St Anne's Gates and the Swiss Guards barracks. Then there is the Abyssinian Church, St Stephen's, where Lord Nicholas Windsor, son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, was married.

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Originally posted by Triple Tiara:
The parish church is Sta Anna, by the St Anne's Gates and the Swiss Guards barracks. Then there is the Abyssinian Church, St Stephen's, where Lord Nicholas Windsor, son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, was married.

Does this mean that Lord Nicholas is now an Ethiopian Catholic?
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quote:
Originally posted by Triple Tiara:
The parish church is Sta Anna, by the St Anne's Gates and the Swiss Guards barracks.

What a curious and charming hybrid of everyday inner-city parish and high-profile bastion of the Vatican!

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As Triple T well knows, those reconciling to themselves to the Catholic Church may do so through any of the churches of that communion-- I know two Melkites and a Coptic Catholic, who onced graced Anglican pews. But a bit of research shows that my post was perhaps too flippant-- Lord Nicholas was received into the Latin church in 2001 and he is now an honorary vice-president of the Friends of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Apologies to other shipmates for the tangent.

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The Vatican state includes various other churches such as the Patriarchal basilicas of Santa Maria Maggiore,San Giovanni in Laterano and San Paolo fuori le Mura,which are all extra territorial to Italy,as well as the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo.Whether they celebrate liturgically on traditional days or not, I don't know.

Ss Peter and Paul is one of the days dropped from the festal calendar of public holidays about 40 years ago (on the 100th anniversary of the Breach of Porta Pia and the incorporation of Rome into the Italian state).The day passes by unnoticed now by most Italians but the pope still celebrates a Solemn Mass at which he distributes the pallium to new archbishops appointed during the previous year.

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Originally posted by dj_ordinaire:
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Originally posted by Triple Tiara:
The parish church is Sta Anna, by the St Anne's Gates and the Swiss Guards barracks.

What a curious and charming hybrid of everyday inner-city parish and high-profile bastion of the Vatican!
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