Corpus Christi is a Latin Rite liturgical solemnity celebrating the tradition and belief in the body and blood of Jesus Christ and his Real Presence in the Eucharist (Wikipedia).
For this religious celebration, they have an extra special tradition, which involves bombs. For the whole week, real bombs are set off throughout the city-yes real bombs. No one really had an answer for what kinds of bombs, but they went off all through the day and all through the night. You would be just sitting and eating your lunch and "Boom" it goes off startling you and making you jump out of your seat. Once you got used to them, you would feel less startled, but somedays they would just continuously go off and it was distracting and annoying.
For this religious celebration, they have an extra special tradition, which involves bombs. For the whole week, real bombs are set off throughout the city-yes real bombs. No one really had an answer for what kinds of bombs, but they went off all through the day and all through the night. You would be just sitting and eating your lunch and "Boom" it goes off startling you and making you jump out of your seat. Once you got used to them, you would feel less startled, but somedays they would just continuously go off and it was distracting and annoying.
On the actual Holy Day, they had a whole procession with men carrying Jesus on a platform while other men followed behind them dressed up in scarey masks. The children would run away from the scary masks and so would little kids.. It was religious yet it felt more like a show rather than celebrating the actual importance.The real importance was celebrated in church.
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