The pasos of Seville’s Corpus Christi

The pasos of Corpus Christi in Seville depict the Holy Thorn (a fragment of the crown of thorns preserved in a reliquary known as the Custodia Chica), Baby Jesus, the Immaculate Conception, Saint Ferdinand (the king in the thirteenth century who united the crowns of Castile and León), Saint Isidore (the famous bishop of Seville who lived in the sixth and seventh centuries A.D.), Saint Leander (the elder brother of Isidore and his predecessor), Saints Justa and Rufina (the patronesses of Seville portrayed around the Girlanda – the famous bell tower of Seville derived from an ancient minaret) and Saint Angela of the Cross (the foundress of the brotherhood of the Hermanas de la Cruz, canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II, whose paso was introduced in 2009). On some occasions, there is also the Misterio de la Hermandad de la Cena: group of statues depicting the Last Supper can be added to these pageants.