THE YORK MYSTERY PLAYS

• York Mystery Plays


  Cycles of plays dramatizing key Biblical stories from the creation to the last judgement
• York Corpus Christi Plays

  Middle English cycle of 48 mystery plays or pageants covering sacred history from the creation to the Last Judgment
• Corpus Christi


  A movable feast on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, between 23 May and 24 June
• York Mystery Plays were performed in the city of York


  Mid-fourteenth century until 1569
• Feast of Corpus Christi


  A festival of the Roman Catholic Church in honour of the real presence of the body (corpus) of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist
• Before the Reformation and the establishment of the Church in England in 1534, England used to be a Catholic nation
• An Excerpt from The York Corpus Christi Plays


  full name of the mystery play
• Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.


  feast of Corpus Christi also known as