In the city guardian of the Eucharistic miracle

03 June 2026

by Francesco Marruncheddu Clinging to the cliff, which makes it famous throughout the world, this year Orvieto is experiencing the solemnity of Corpus Domini with a particular atmosphere, that of waiting for a great event: it will be the ancient “city of the Popes” that will host the National Eucharistic Congress in September 2027. An expectation that is now almost palpable, in the streets and narrow streets of the city, over which the cathedral of Santa Maria della Stella, shining almost with its own light in the luminous golden polychromy of its mosaics that the sun kisses at sunset. «All over the world there is a little piece of Orvieto, because the Corpus Domini procession is held all over the world», says Don Danilo Innocenzi, archdeacon and president of the chapter of …