ABSTRACT
On the Thursday after Trinity Sunday 1555, the Feast of Corpus Christi, a public procession of the Blessed Sacrament, the consecrated bread of the Eucharist, took place at Kingston upon Thames. Fray Bartolomé Carranza gave his own account of the events of that day. From the evidence later given by Carranza's compatriots to the Inquisition, it appears that the main participants in the liturgical procession at Kingston were Spanish. In an editorial published on 20 January 1899 and reprinted exactly one hundred years later, the High Church Anglican weekly the Church Times attacked the building of the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Westminster. The concept of a living and passionate devotion to the Body and Blood of Christ, which was evidently in the minds and hearts of Carranza and his Spanish companions, raises important questions, not only about the nature of Catholicism in Spain at the time, but also about the character of the so-called 'Restoration' of Catholicism in Mary's England.
