What is Fronleichnam? If you would have asked me yesterday I would not have been able to tell you. Here is how I found out about it.

This morning I was supposed to participate in an early morning conference call with some of my colleagues in Germany. I went to bed early last night, woke up early this morning and left for work early so I would be their in time.

However, I found out that the conference call had been canceled because of a holiday in Germany.

So, I had to find out what the holiday it was. I quickly found out that today was Fronleichnam.

Fronleichnam is not on a set day, but is 60 days after Easter Sunday. I decided that I could use a picture of wooden Easter eggs to illustrate this 🙂

I have several of these eggs on my shelf at home.

Fronleichnam is known as the Feast of Corpus Christi in most places and is a Latin Rite celebrating the body of Christ.

Fronleichnam is celebrated by Catholics and some Anglican and Lutheran churches.

The day is celebrated by processions through the town, but since I don’t have pictures of a procession I will share a few pictures of church buildings in Jena, Germany.

The picture above is of Stadtkirche St. Michael. This church building has a interesting connection to Martin Luther. See my post:  Reformation Day II

This church building is St. John’s and is the meeting place for Catholics in Jena. I like the Gothic architecture of the building.

Across the street from St. John’s is the Friedenskirche. This Baroque church was built in the late 1600’s and is surrounded by a large cemetery. An Evangelical group worships in the church building.

You can view another picture of this church building in my post: September 11 Birthday

The picture above was taken from near the grave of Carl Zeiss who was born on September 11, 1816.

I enjoy working for a global company, you learn so much about other countries and cultures.

Steven