COLOUR BLOCK

For the last seven hundred years in the town of Orvieto, a yearly procession takes place on the Sunday of Corpus Christi.  This event celebrates the miracle of Bolsena; in 1263 a wandering priest, doubting his faith, celebrated Mass at St. Christina in Bolsena. At the moment of consecration the Host (wafer) bled onto the alter cloth, revealing it's true nature as the Body of Christ.  This stained linen cloth is the climax of the procession, beautifully preserved in a reliquary and carried under a canopy.

I was lucky to happen upon this event and was quite taken with the historical parade that preceded the sacred procession.  Our current throw back to the colour block styles of the 1990's could take a page from these early renaissance gentlemen.