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…It was a liturgical event that spread from Germany in the late Middle Ages, was welcomed by the people of Christian countries, and was held outside the church. In German, it is called Fronleichnamsprozession. The devotion of the masses to worship the consecrated bread as Christ, which was raised to the height of the Eucharist after the consecration, began in Paris around 1200, and was gradually introduced into the liturgy. It reached its peak with the exposition of the Eucharist, in which the Eucharist is placed in a container and displayed to the congregation after Mass, the Eucharistic adoration, in which people kneel before the Eucharist and pray and meditate, the benediction, in which the congregation is blessed with the Eucharist, and the Eucharistic procession, in which the Eucharist is carried through the town in a procession (since 1274 in Cologne). …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Fronleichnamsprozession" are listed below.

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…中世末期のドイツから広まり，キリスト教国の民衆に歓迎され，教会外に繰り広げられた典礼行事。ドイツ語ではFronleichnamsprozession。ミサの中で聖別されたパンをキリストとして目で仰いで礼拝しようとした大衆の信心は，聖別後聖体を高く挙げる聖体奉挙がパリで1200年ころ始まってから，しだいに典礼に導入されるようになり，聖体をミサ後に容器に入れて会衆に展示する聖体顕示，その前でひざまずいて祈り黙想する聖体礼拝，それをもって会衆を祝福する聖体降福式，さらにその聖体を奉持して町の中を練り歩く聖体行列(ケルンでは1274年以来)でその最高潮に達した。…

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