Corpus Christi is the festival in the Roman Catholic Church held on the Thursday after TrinitySunday. Corpus Christi means 'body of Christ', and takes the form of the consecrated host at the Lord's supper, which, according to the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, is changed by the act of consecration into the real body of Christ. This doctrine caused the adoration of the consecrated host, and hence the Roman Catholic Church has ordained for the host a particular festival, called the Corpus Christi feast. It was established as a general festival in 1264 by a bull of PopeUrban IV. It commemorates the institution of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper and among Roman Catholics is the occasion of outdoor processions. Research Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, called also Benet College, was founded about 1352 by the united guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin, two fraternities of townspeople which used to meet for prayers at St BenedictChurch and St Mary's respectively. The endowments of the college were considerably increased by Archbishop Parker, who also bequeathed to it his valuable collection of manuscripts.
Corpus Christi College, Oxford is a college founded by Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester, under the license from Henry VIII in 1516. The foundation consisted of twenty fellows and twenty scholars. Research Corpus Christi College
Charles Abbott Tenterden (BaronTenterden) was an English lawyer. He was born in 1762 at Canterbury and died in 1832. Educated at King's School, Canterbury and Corpus Christi, Oxford, he entered the Middle Temple in 1787 and practised at the bar before being called from the Inner Temple in 1796. He gained a reputation as an authority on marine and mercantile law and was appointed a judge in 1816 and lord chief justice in 1818. He was made a peer in 1827. Research Charles Tenterden
Thomas Fowler was an English philosophical writer. He was born in 1832 and died in 1904. He studied at Merton College, Oxford, and graduated with first-class honours in both classics and mathematics in 1854, soon after becoming fellow and tutor of Lincoln College. He was Professor of Logic in the University from 1873 to 1889. In 1881 he was elected president of Corpus Christi College, and held the post until his death in 1904. He was also Vice-chancellor of the University from 1899 to 1901. His published works include two volumes on Logic, Deductive (1867), and Inductive (1870), reproductions, in the main, for Oxford use, of J. S. Mill's logical system; editions of Bacon's Novum Organum, with introduction and notes, and Locke's Conduct of the Understanding; Progressive Morality, an Essay in Ethics; Principles of Morals; and monographs on Locke, Bacon, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson. Research Thomas Fowler
Urban IV was Pope from 1261 until his death in 1064. The son of a French cobbler of Troyes, Jacques Pantaleon studied in Paris and became successively canon of Laon, archdeacon of Liege, bishop of Verdun, in 1253, and patriarch of Jerusalem, in 1255. Innocent IV employed him in various missions, and in 1261 he was elected pope at Viterbo. Urban IV's policy led ultimately to the final overthrow of the enemy of the papacy, the Hohenstaufen dynasty. He secured French intervention in Italy, in the person of Charles of Anjou, by the offer of the Sicilian crown, but Italy had to be won back from Manfred, prince of Tarentum. Urban's diplomacy kept off Manfred, but the pope did not live to see the accomplishment of his schemes, and he died at Perugia, on October the 2nd, 1264. Urban IV established the feast of Corpus Christi. Research Urban IV
The Reverend William Buckland was an English geologist. He was born in 1784 at Axminster, Devon and died in 1856. Educated at Winchester and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship from 1808 to 1825. In 1813 he was appointed reader in mineralogy at Oxford; and in 1818 a readership of geology was expressly instituted for him. A paper contributed by him to the Philosophical Transactions in 1822, entitled, Account of an Assemblage of Fossil Teeth and Bones discovered in a Cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the Year 1821, procured for him the Copley medal; and on this was founded his Reliquiae Diluvianae, published in 1823. In 1825 he was presented by his college to the living of StokeCharity, Hampshire, and the same year became one of the canons of Christ ChurchCathedral, Oxford. In 1832 he acted as president of the British Association. In 1836 his Bridgewater Treatise was published, under the title of Geology and Mineralogy considered with Reference to Natural Theology. In 1845 he was made Dean of Westminster, and in 1847 one of the trustees of the British Museum. Research William Buckland
William Scott Stowell (BaronStowell) was an English lawyer. He was born in 1745 at Heworth, Durham and died in 1836. Educated at NewcastleGrammar School and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he became Camden lecturer on ancient history at Oxford and a barrister and in 1780 began to practise law in London. In 1788 he was made a judge, and from 1798 until 1827 was judge of the court of the admiralty, and was the founder of British prize law. After sitting in the House of Commons as member for Oxford University, he was made a baron in 1821. Research William Stowell
Eva Longoria is an American actress and film producer. She was born in 1975 at Corpus Christi, Texas. She played 'Isabella Brana Williams' in the soap-opera 'The Young and the Restless'. Research Eva Longoria
Farrah Fawcett (real name Mary Farrah Leni Fawcett) is an American actress. She was born in 1947 at Corpus Christi, Texas. She had her first break guest starring in shows such as 'I Dream of Jeanie', 'The Flying Nun', and 'The Partridge Family' during the 1960s before meeting Lee Majors in 1968 and going on to achieve fame for her looks in 'The Six Million Dollar Man' and 'Carlie's Angels'. Research Farrah Fawcett
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