{"id":333930,"date":"2026-06-12T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333930\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:07:08","slug":"the-celebration-of-corpus-christi-georgia-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333930\/","title":{"rendered":"The celebration of Corpus Christi &#8211; Georgia Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t&#13;&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by his brother priests, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., carries the monstrance displaying the Eucharist for the Corpus Christi procession from the historic Church of the Purification to the Heritage retreat center. Photo by Julianna Leopold<\/p>\n<p>&#13;&#13;&#13;\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/georgiabulletin.org\/location\/crawfordville\/\" title=\"Read more articles from Crawfordville\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crawfordville<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tBy GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF | Published June 12, 2026\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026_06_06_GB_heritageprocession23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"536\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-92309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bishop Joel M. Konzen, SM, left, and Bishop John N. Tran walk together during eucharistic procession starting from the Church of the Purification to celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi. Photo by Julianna Leopold<\/p>\n<p>CRAWFORDVILLE\u2014Catholics gathered on June 6 to celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi in the place where the faith began in Georgia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., and Atlanta\u2019s auxiliary bishops celebrated an outdoor Mass in a meadow on the property of the Retreat at Heritage. A eucharistic procession\u2014two and a half miles in length\u2014preceded the Mass. The procession began at the Church of the Purification, the first Catholic Church in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend celebration also included a display of eucharistic miracles at the Retreat at Heritage. The archdiocese offered transportation for those wanting to travel to the event from the Atlanta area.<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi\u2014the Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ\u2014celebrates the Catholic belief in the real presence of Jesus Christ\u2019s body, blood, soul and divinity in the Eucharist. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 pilgrims participated in the procession including laypeople, priests and the Missionaries of Charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13;&#13; Surrounded by his brother priests, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., carries the monstrance displaying the Eucharist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-333930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}