The Corpus Christi parade in Seville nowadays

The Corpus Christi procession in Seville part from the Cathedral at 8.30 AM, after the traditional de los Seises dance: this dance, dating from the seventeenth century, is performed by six young singers before the Blessed Sacrament, the Archbishop and the municipal authorities. The pasos, carried by shoulder and escorted by numerous Sevillian confraternities, leaves the church in the following order: Saint Angela of the Cross, Saints Justa and Rufina, Saint Isidore, Saint Leander, Saint Ferdinand (the king who, in the thirteenth century, united the crowns of Castile and León, is depicted in a royal gown with one hand which wields the sword and the other which holds a globe). The monstrance of the Holy Sacrament is accompanied by a procession of ecclesiastical and civil authorities. In plaza San Francisco, the procession is channeled through a door (an architectural ephemeral element prepared for the occasion) in a location covered by a tent where the faithful come out through another door. Excluding the image of Saint Angela, built in recent times, and the paso‘s silvery case, built at the end of the sixteenth century. They are Baroque works dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.