Corpus-Christi

Corpus-Christi might be disappointed to know that no team has repeated as conference tournament champion since ex-league member Louisiana-Monroe did four times between

2008 conference tournament capsules 2008

At the Corpus-Christi Day they both decorated an altar.

A Simple Soul 2003

_ 'The old Pope of Rome, finding it laborious to kneel so long while they cart him through the streets to bless the people on _Corpus-Christi_ day, complains of rheumatism; whereupon his cardinals consult -- construct him, after some study, a stuffed, cloaked figure, of iron and wood, with wool or baked hair, and place it in a kneeling posture.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

Dr. Cleveland Coxe's very graceful ballad, we must hold to have been conferred because the lake was discovered on Corpus-Christi Day.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

Instead, we have thirty thousand men, marching to battle as prim and orderly as a parcel of acolytes in a Corpus-Christi procession.

The Tavern Knight Rafael Sabatini 1912

Corpus-Christi festival was lately discovered in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, the manuscript being, it is said, as old as the reign of Edward IV., who died in 1483.

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

-- Henceforth mass is said every Sunday in each village, and the peasants enjoy their processions on Corpus-Christi day, when their crops are blessed.

The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

_Corpus-Christi_ festival was lately discovered in the library of

Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

Roman population on _Corpus-Christi_ Day, as well as they can.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Rome, finding it laborious to kneel so long while they cart him through the streets to bless the people on _Corpus-Christi_ Day, complains of rheumatism; whereupon his Cardinals consult; -- construct him, after some study, a stuffed cloaked figure, of iron and wood, with wool or baked hair; and place it in a kneeling posture.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838