{"id":7410,"date":"2021-08-20T00:04:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/the-great-monstrance-of-sevilles-corpus-christi\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:22","slug":"the-great-monstrance-of-sevilles-corpus-christi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/themes\/festivals\/the-corpus-christi-of-seville\/the-great-monstrance-of-sevilles-corpus-christi\/","title":{"rendered":"The great monstrance of Seville&#8217;s Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The great monstrance of Seville&#8217;s Corpus Christi <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A work of the great goldsmith and sculptor Juan de Arfe y Villafa\u00f1e (L\u00e9on 1535 &#8211; Madrid 1603), la <em>Custodia Grande<\/em> in Seville is a beautiful silver monstrance used to carry the Blessed Sacrament in procession on the day of <em>Corpus Christi<\/em>. The work, which grows in height by more than three meters long and weighs over 3 tons, is composed of four circular columns in a superimposed structure, consisting of four floors with a diameter which is progressively closer, culminating in a lantern. In the great monstrance of the&nbsp;<em>Corpus Christi<\/em> of Seville episodes and characters of the Holy Scriptures and of ecclesiastical history are carved. In some cases, these are the same scenes that are proposed in the <em>pasos<\/em> and the same characters (Saint Isidore, Saint Leander and the Saints Justa and Rufina) parading in the wake of the monstrance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great monstrance of Seville&#8217;s Corpus Christi A work of the great goldsmith and sculptor Juan de Arfe y Villafa\u00f1e (L\u00e9on 1535 &#8211; Madrid 1603), la Custodia Grande in Seville is a beautiful silver monstrance used to carry the Blessed Sacrament in procession on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6599,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7410","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11609,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7410\/revisions\/11609"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}