基督圣体节 Feast of Corpus Christi

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谢菲, 了解德国宗教假日 免得糊涂过节 l 你知道德国的法定假日基督圣体节么？这是五旬节后的第二个星期四。越听越一头雾水了？别担心，你并不 '孤单。'  德国之声, May 26, 2016.
http://www.dw.com/zh/%E4%BA%86%E ... E8%8A%82/a-19283918

Note:
(a) "今年5月26日这天在德国16个联邦州中的6个州是法定假日 - '基督圣体节'（德文Fronleichnam， 英文Corpus Christi）。"
(i) Corpus Christi, Texas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Christi,_Texas
("The city's name (Corpus Christi) in Latin means Body of Christ. The name was given to the settlement and surrounding bay by Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519, as he discovered the lush semitropical bay on the Catholic feast day of Corpus Christi")
(ii) list of ports in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ports_in_the_United_States
(rank (by total trade) by 2013 figures: Corpus Christi 8th; Boston 35th)
(iii) Corpus Christi (feast)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Christi_(feast)
(Date  60 days after Easter)

(b) German English dictionary:
* Fronleichnam (noun masculine; German [noun masculine] Fron [socage] +‎ [noun masculine] Leichnam [corpse])
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fronleichnam

(c) "在教堂参加过弥撒的人也许对仪式最后的领取薄薄面制 '圣体饼'（德文Hostie, 英文 sacramental bread）和葡萄酒的程序不陌生。在此，薄饼和葡萄酒象征着耶稣奉献的血肉"

Blessed Sacrament
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_Sacrament
(to refer to the altar bread and altar wine after it has been consecrated)

(d) " '基督圣体节' 成为天主教的节日要追述到公元13世纪，当时比利时列日郊区的一位修女向教区主教 bishop 讲述，她从1209年起多次看见有一块缺口的满月"
(i) Juliana of Liège
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_of_Liège
(c 1192 or 1193 – 1258; "When Juliana was 16 she had her first vision which recurred subsequently several times. Her vision presented the moon in its full splendour, crossed diametrically by a dark stripe")
(ii)
(A) Liège
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liège
(a city; is located in the province of the same name; section 1 Etymology; view map)
(B) Liège
www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/liege
(pronunciation)

(e) " '基督圣体节' 被定为每年天主教五旬节过后的第二个星期四，这也是为什么每年这天日期会有不同。因为五旬节，也称 '圣灵降临日'（德文 Pfingsten， 英文 Pentecost），每年在复活节后第50天以及 '耶稣升天节 [']（德文 Christi Himmelfahrt，英文 Ascension of Jesus）后10天。"
(i) Pentecost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecost
(the word came from Ancient Greek for "the fiftieth [day]"/ seven weeks after Easter Day; falls on the tenth day after Ascension Thursday (which itself is 40 days after Easter)
(ii) According to Christianity, resurrection (rising from the dead; still roaming on earth) of Jesus occurred three days after crucifixion, on Easter Sunday -- whereas ascension, "elevation of Christ into heaven by His own power in the presence of His disciples on the fortieth day after His Resurrection from the grave."

(f) "德国不同地方的宗教传统各异，比如南部的巴伐利亚州、巴符州等地天主教影响比较深远，而德国北部以及原属社会主义民德的东部地区的居民信仰福音新教以及无神论者相对较多。"

巴符州 is short for 巴登-符腾堡州 Baden-Württemberg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg
(capital Stuttgart)
(g) "圣诞节、复活节、万圣节越来越成为商家促销、民众聚餐派对的机会。"

万圣节  All Saints' Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Day
(celebrated on Nov 1 by Roman Catholic Church)