PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hrdina, Jan
TI  - The chapel of Corpus Christi in prague's New Town in the pre-hussite period - two small studies
DP  - 2013 Dec 15
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 21--38
VI  - 29
IP  - 2
AID - 10.56112/sp.2013.2.02
IS  - 02316056
AB  - This article addresses two aspects of the history of the chapel of Corpus Christi, which until 1791 stood in the middle of the Charles Square in Prague's New Town. The chapel was founded between 1382 and 1393 from the initiative of the confraternity in the sign of the of Circle and Hammer and put under the patronage of Body and Blood of the Lord, Blessed Virgin Mary and Sts. Felix and Adauctus. The author queries why the chapel was consecrated to Sts. Felix and Adauctus, whose cult did not proliferate in Bohemia and in Central Europe until mid-14th century. The second analysis seeks to uncover the location, from which the relics were displayed during feasts of ostensio reliquiarum, which took place in Prague since the mid-1350s until 1420.